CVE-2015-2996

high

Published 2015-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in SysAid Help Desk before 15.2 allow remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter to getGfiUpgradeFile or (2) cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter to calculateRdsFileChecksum.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43885 webapps hardware

Pedro Ribeiro · 2015-06-10

SysAid Help Desk 14.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_admin/http/sysaid_file_download rank 300

SysAid Help Desk Arbitrary File Download

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

auxiliary_admin/http/sysaid_sql_creds rank 300

SysAid Help Desk Database Credentials Disclosure

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
sysaid	sysaid	`{"endIncluding":"15.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.