CVE-2018-8841 is an improper privilege management vulnerability affecting multiple Advantech WebAccess products, including versions V8.2 and prior, V8.3.0 and prior, WebAccess Dashboard V.2.0.15 and prior, WebAccess Scada Node prior to 8.3.1, and WebAccess/NMS 2.0.3 and prior. This flaw allows an authenticated user with read access to modify files, leading to a high-severity CVSS score of 7.8. The vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access and low privileges, but can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.2_20170817CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 8.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.0.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 8.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess_scada:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess\/nms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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.