Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2022-51025

TLP:CLEAR

pentasecurity wapples Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Penta Security WAPPLES 4.0.54.1, 5.0, and 6.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to download arbitrary files via the name parameter of /webapi/file/transfer. Attackers can send GET requests with type=db_backup and ../ sequences in name to read files like /etc/passwd, and a hardcoded systemi account makes authentication effectively trivial. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Facts

Vendor: Penta Security Systems
Product: WAPPLES
EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 0.5 %
First known exploitation: 22 October 2026
First seen by Risk Letters: 22 October 2026

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD