CVE-2008-2015: Watchfire Appscan

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in certain ActiveX controls in WatchFire AppScan 7.0 allow remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the (1) CompactSave and (2) SaveSession method in one control, and the (3) saveRecordedExploreToFile method in a different control. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Watchfire Appscan: version 7.0 only

Published 2008-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.