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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2018-7490 in the critical feed json

uWSGI Directory Traversal vulnerability

published 2018-02-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h2vm-c85r-5vh5 , PYSEC-2018-78 , EUVD-2018-0145

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
69.4%
EPSS 69.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

uWSGI before 2.0.17 mishandles a DOCUMENT_ROOT check during use of the --php-docroot option, allowing directory traversal.

Patch / fix

  • pypi uwsgi 2.0.17
  • unbit uwsgi 2.0.17
  • uwsgi Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.15-10.4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7490

  • uwsgi Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.9.17.1-5ubuntu0.1
  • uwsgi Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.0.12-5ubuntu3.2
  • uwsgi Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.0.15-10.2ubuntu2.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7490

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • uwsgi Alpine 3.7, Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5 +1 more 2.0.17-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-7490

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

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

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-7490 updated cvss 5.9

uWSGI: Mishandled DOCUMENT_ROOT check with use of --php-docroot option allows for directory traversal

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-44223)

Exploit prediction

69.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44223 uWSGI < 2.0.17 - Directory Traversal webapps, 2018-03-02
  • Nuclei template uWSGI PHP Plugin Local File Inclusion nuclei detection template

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi uwsgi
<2.0.17
2.0.17

Classification

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

References

Sources

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