{"id":"CVE-2018-25438","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-25438","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:49:35.409Z","title":"Intermesh Group-Office 3.3.0 before 3.5.5 contains an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in compress.php that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the 'file' parameter.","description":"Intermesh Group-Office 3.3.0 before 3.5.5 contains an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in compress.php that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the 'file' parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /compress.php with '../' sequences in the 'file' parameter, which is appended to the cache path and passed to readfile(), to read files such as /etc/passwd. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-21.","published":"2026-10-22T11:17:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-22T17:40:47.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00536,"percentile":0.44993,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-23","score":0.00536,"percentile":0.44403}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-22T11:17:03.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.7","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T11:17:03.463Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.7)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018020249","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/other/groupoffice-lfi.yaml","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.group-office.com/","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/intermesh-group-office-3.5.5-path-traversal-via-compress-php","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25438","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}