Grouptime Teamwire Desktop Client 1.5.1 prior to 1.9.0 on Windows allows code injection via a template, leading to remote code execution.

published 2019-06-28 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-8945

cvss: 8.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.6%; EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits: 0; none known

Grouptime Teamwire Desktop Client 1.5.1 prior to 1.9.0 on Windows allows code injection via a template, leading to remote code execution. All backend versions prior to prod-2018-11-13-15-00-42 are affected.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

teamwire teamwire 1.9.0

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Exploit prediction

2.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

research.hisolutions.com https://research.hisolutions.com/2019/06/web-vulnerabilities-are-coming-to-the-desktop-template-injections-lead-to-rce-in-teamwire/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

research.hisolutions.com /2019/06/web-vulnerabilities-are-coming-to-the-desktop-template-injections-lead-to-rce-in-teamwire/
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-17170
NVD CVE-2018-17170

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