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critical 10.0

CVE-2015-6459 json

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the download feature in FileDownloadServlet in GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Ent…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-6400

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the download feature in FileDownloadServlet in GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Enterprise before 3.1.5 allows remote attackers to read or delete arbitrary files via a full pathname.

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Vendor advisories

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cisa ICSA-15-258-03 updated cvss 9.4

GE MDS PulseNET Vulnerabilities

  • GE MDS PulseNET <=3.1.3 GE MDS PulseNET Enterprise <=3.1.3
    affected: mitigation “GE’s new version of MDS PulseNET is available at the following location: (http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/Communications/MDS/PulseNET_Download.aspx)”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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