CVE-2023-28382 — Directory traversal vulnerability in ESS REC Agent Server Edition series allows

Directory traversal vulnerability in ESS REC Agent Server Edition series allows an authenticated attacker to view or alter an arbitrary file on the server. Affected products and versions are as follows: ESS REC Agent Server Edition for Linux V1.0.0 to V1.4.3, ESS REC Agent Server

01What is this vulnerability?

Directory traversal vulnerability in ESS REC Agent Server Edition series allows an authenticated attacker to view or alter an arbitrary file on the server. Affected products and versions are as follows: ESS REC Agent Server Edition for Linux V1.0.0 to V1.4.3, ESS REC Agent Server Edition for Solaris V1.1.0 to V1.4.0, ESS REC Agent Server Edition for HP-UX V1.1.0 to V1.4.0, and ESS REC Agent…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Encourage Technologies Co.,Ltd.	ESS REC Agent Server Edition series	ESS REC Agent Server Edition for Linux V1.0.0 to V1.4.3, ESS REC Agent Server Edition for Solaris V1.1.0 to V1.4.0, ESS REC Agent Server Edition for HP-UX V1.1.0 to V1.4.0, and ESS REC Agent Server Edition for AIX V1.2.0 to V1.4.1

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

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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: 2023-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-15T15:49:42.252Z

09References

• customer.et-x.jp — https://customer.et-x.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/2260
• jvn.jp — https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN19243534/