VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-6885

The vulnerability is unauthenticated and leads to access to the asset files with the MicroStrategy user privileges.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.43%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in MicroStrategy Web Services (the Microsoft Office plugin) before 10.4 Hotfix 7, and before 10.11. The vulnerability is unauthenticated and leads to access to the asset files with the MicroStrategy user privileges. (This includes the credentials to access the admin dashboard which may lead to RCE.) The path traversal is located in a SOAP request in the web service component.

CVSS 3.0: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 1.43% probability · 72th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-22
Affected: microstrategy/web services
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-VulnerabilityVendor Advisory
https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-VulnerabilityVendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.