CVE-2016-5840

high
Published 2016-06-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

hotfix_upload.cgi in Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector (DDI) 3.7, 3.8 SP1 (3.81), and 3.8 SP2 (3.82) allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40180 webapps linux
korpritzombie ยท 2016-07-29

Trend Micro Deep Discovery 3.7/3.8 SP1 (3.81)/3.8 SP2 (3.82) - 'hotfix_upload.cgi' Filename Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
trend_microdeep_discovery_inspector3.7
trend_microdeep_discovery_inspector3.81
trend_microdeep_discovery_inspector3.82

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.