CVE-2002-2170: Working Resources Inc. Badblue

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Working Resources Inc. BadBlue Enterprise Edition 1.7 through 1.74 attempts to restrict administrator actions to the IP address of the local host, but does not provide additional authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web page containing an HTTP POST request that accesses the dir.hts page on the localhost and adds an entire hard drive to be shared.

Affected products

• Working Resources Inc. Badblue: version enterprise_1.7 only; version enterprise_1.7.2 only; version enterprise_1.7.3 only; version enterprise_1.7.4 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.