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CVE-2017-12815

CRITICAL

Analysis of the Bomgar Remote Support Portal JavaStart.jar Applet 52790 and earlier revealed that it is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability. The archive can be downloaded from a given Bomgar Remote Support Portal deployment at https://domain/api/content/JavaStart.jar and is callable from an arbitrary website using <object> and/or <appletHTML> tags. Successful exploitation results in file creation/modification/deletion in the operating system and with privileges of the user that ran the Java applet.

Published: Mar 26, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-22

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: CHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

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

Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
bomgar remote_support -

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-vx88-5hj8-432c

Analysis of the Bomgar Remote Support Portal JavaStart.jar Applet 52790 and earlier revealed that...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 10.0 / 10
EPSS Score 1.99%

Top 21% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.6 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub