CVE-2018-17908

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 39 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.45% (39th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cisa_csaf_ot · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

WebAccess Versions 8.3.2 and prior. During installation, the application installer disables user access control and does not re-enable it after the installation is complete. This could allow an attacker to run elevated arbitrary code.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

No vendor fix yet; a mitigation is available.

MitigationWebAccess Versionscisa_csaf_ot
Advantech has released Version 8.3.3 of WebAccess to address the reported vulnerabilities. Users can download the latest version of WebAccess at the following location:
http://support.advantech.com/support/DownloadSRDetail_New.aspx?SR_ID=1-MS9MJV&Doc_Source=Download

cvss

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

8.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

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

v3.08.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · CISA US

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284USprimaryCWE-284US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

WebAccess Versions: 8.3.2 and priorall versionscisa_csaf_otUS
Advantech WebAccess Versions≤ 8.3.2cisa_csaf_otUS
n/a WebAccess Versions 8.3.2 and prior.≤ WebAccess Versions 8.3.2 and prior.enisa_euvdEU
advantech webaccess≤ 8.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

ICSA-18-298-02Advantech WebAccess2018-10-25icsa · cisa_csaf_otUS
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary remote code execution.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cisa_csaf_ot nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-10-29modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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