VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-17672

critical
Published 2017-12-14 · 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

In vBulletin through 5.3.x, there is an unauthenticated deserialization vulnerability that leads to arbitrary file deletion and, under certain circumstances, code execution, because of unsafe usage of PHP's unserialize() in vB_Library_Template's cacheTemplates() function, which is a publicly exposed API. This is exploited with the templateidlist parameter to ajax/api/template/cacheTemplates.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vbulletinvbulletin{"startIncluding":"5.0.1","endIncluding":"5.3.3"}
vbulletinvbulletin5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-502

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