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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-0854 in the critical feed json

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the uploadImageCommon function in the UploadAjaxAction script in the WebAccess Dashboard Viewer i…

published 2016-01-15 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-0865

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
77.0%
EPSS 77.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the uploadImageCommon function in the UploadAjaxAction script in the WebAccess Dashboard Viewer in Advantech WebAccess before 8.1 allows remote attackers to write to files of arbitrary types via unspecified vectors.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-16-014-01 updated cvss 9.8

Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities

  • Advantech WebAccess <=8.0
    affected: mitigation “Update to the latest version. (http://www.advantech.com/industrial-automation/webaccess)”

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/scada/advantech_webaccess_dashboard_file_upload)

Exploit prediction

77.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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