CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17662
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-522
Description
ThinVNC 1.0b1 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read, which leads to a compromise of the VNC server. The vulnerability exists even when authentication is turned on during the deployment of the VNC server. The password for authentication is stored in cleartext in a file that can be read via a ../../ThinVnc.ini directory traversal attack vector.
Affected configurations
• cybelsoft thinvnc 1.0
Related
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154896/ThinVNC-1.0b1-Authentication-Bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/bewest/thinvnc/issues/5 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/shashankmangal2/Exploits/blob/master/ThinVNC-RemoteAccess/POC.py Broken Link
- https://redteamzone.com/ThinVNC/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154896/ThinVNC-1.0b1-Authentication-Bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/bewest/thinvnc/issues/5 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/shashankmangal2/Exploits/blob/master/ThinVNC-RemoteAccess/POC.py Broken Link
- https://redteamzone.com/ThinVNC/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory