Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9538

Title: Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9538.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Oct 03, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.63%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9538: The 'Upload logo from external path' function of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor version 12.0.15300.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (permanent display of a "Cannot exit above the top directory" error message throughout the entire web application) via a ".." in the path field. In other words, the denial of service is caused by an incorrect implementation of a directory-traversal protection mechanism.

Impacted Vendors

solarwinds 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541263/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101066 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541263/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101066

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns