CVE-2017-15220

critical

Published 2017-10-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Flexense VX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via an empty POST request to a long URI beginning with a /../ substring. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
flexense	vx_search	`10.1.12`

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42973/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42973/

CWEs

CWE-119

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