CVE-2017-18001

critical

Description

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) through 11.8.0.27 allows remote attackers to append an arbitrary public key to the device's SSH Authorized Keys data, and consequently obtain remote root access, via the publicKey parameter to the /sendKey URI.

References

https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9143

https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H