CVE-2018-7490

Publication date 26 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that uWSGI did not properly validate certain input, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause uWSGI to expose sensitive information.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
uwsgi	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.0.15-10.2ubuntu2.1
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.0.12-5ubuntu3.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.9.17.1-5ubuntu0.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N