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CVE-2018-12465criticalCWE-77

Remote Code Execution in Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway

85Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendcvss 9.1epss 79%
from disclosure to weapon25 days
Published on NVDJun 29
1st PoC+25d
metasploitJun 19
exploitation probability
79%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
An OS command injection vulnerability in the web administration component of Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway (SMG) allows a remote attacker authenticated as a privileged user to execute arbitrary OS commands on the SMG server. This can be exploited in conjunction with CVE-2018-12464 to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. Affects Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway versions prior to 471. It does not affect previous versions of the product that used GWAVA product name (i.e. GWAVA 6.5).
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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