CVE-2018-12036

mediumpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

1.68% (77th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

OWASP Dependency-Check before 3.2.0 allows attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.07.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-123USprimaryCWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

shoucheng3/jeremylong__DependencyCheck_CVE-2018-12036_3-1-2shoucheng3/jeremylong__DependencyCheck_CVE-2018-12036_3-1-2PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
owasp dependency-check< 3.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:owasp:dependency-check:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.owasp:dependency-check-maven< 3.2.0osvUSpkg:maven/org.owasp/dependency-check-maven

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hcwx-7q5v-vc67Path Traversal in OWASP Dependency-Check2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
OWASP Dependency-Check before 3.2.0 allows attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-06-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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