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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-15379 in the critical feed json

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Arbitrary File Upload and Command Execution Vulnerability

published 2018-10-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-7257

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
86.2%
EPSS 86.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

A vulnerability in which the HTTP web server for Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) has unrestricted directory permissions could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to upload an arbitrary file. This file could allow the attacker to execute commands at the privilege level of the user prime. This user does not have administrative or root privileges. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect permission setting for important system directories. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a malicious file by using TFTP, which can be accessed via the web-interface GUI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to run commands on the targeted application without authentication.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/cisco_prime_inf_rce)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

86.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-275 Permission Issues
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.