CVE-2015-4027 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) before version 10 build 20151125. An attacker can exploit this by manipulating the reporttemplate property within a JSON object sent to the api/addScan endpoint of the AcuWVSSchedulerv10 service. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability carries high severity, allowing an authenticated local user to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:acunetix:web_vulnerability_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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