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CVE-2008-2015

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-04-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in certain ActiveX controls in WatchFire AppScan 7.0 allow remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the (1) CompactSave and (2) SaveSession method in one control, and the (3) saveRecordedExploreToFile method in a different control. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected Platforms

Watchfire Appscan

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References