CVE-2017-18001 is a critical vulnerability affecting Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) versions up to 11.8.0.27. It allows remote attackers to append arbitrary public keys to the device's SSH Authorized Keys, leading to unauthorized root access. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication or user interaction required, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 11.8.0.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:secure_web_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.