Is CVE-2021-48017 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2021-48017?

CVE-2021-48017 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2021-48017

Description

OrbiTeam BSCW Server 5.x before 5.2.5 and 7.x before 7.4.4 contains an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in the style_name parameter of the theme operation. Attackers can send GET requests to /pub/bscw.cgi/<id>?op=theme with ../ sequences in style_name to read local files such as /etc/passwd. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-22.