CVE-2017-7929

high

Published 2017-05-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

An Absolute Path Traversal issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess Version 8.1 and prior. The absolute path traversal vulnerability has been identified, which may allow an attacker to traverse the file system to access restricted files or directories.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
advantech	webaccess	`{"endIncluding":"8.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-36 CWE-22

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

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