CVE-2018-19197 — An issue was discovered in XiaoCms 20141229

An issue was discovered in XiaoCms 20141229. admin\controller\database.php allows arbitrary directory deletion via admin/index.php?c=database&a=import&paths[]=../ directory traversal.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in XiaoCms 20141229. admin\controller\database.php allows arbitrary directory deletion via admin/index.php?c=database&a=import&paths[]=../ directory traversal.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-12T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T03:17:23.561Z

09References

• www.patec.cn — https://www.patec.cn/newsshow.php?cid=24&id=136
• github.com — https://github.com/AvaterXXX/XiaoCms/blob/master/DIR_DEL.md