CVE-2019-14418

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) before 3.4 HF1. When uploading an application bundle, a directory traversal vulnerability allows a VRP user with sufficient privileges to overwrite any file in the VRP virtual machine. A malicious VRP user could use this to replace existing files to take control of the VRP virtual machine.

Category

8.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 5.25% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory veritas.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS19-002.html#Issue1 vendor advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jul/39 broken link mailing list third party advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153842/Veritas-Resiliency-Platform-VRP-Traversal-Command-Execution.html third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-14418?
CVE-2019-14418 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-14418?
To fix CVE-2019-14418, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-14418 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-14418 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~5% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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