CVE-2017-18001

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) through 11.8.0.27 allows remote attackers to append an arbitrary public key to the device's SSH Authorized Keys data, and consequently obtain remote root access, via the publicKey parameter to the /sendKey URI.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-306

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 31, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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