CVE-2017-18001: Trustwave Secure Web Gateway

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 14.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) through 11.8.0.27 allows remote attackers to append an arbitrary public key to the device's SSH Authorized Keys data, and consequently obtain remote root access, via the publicKey parameter to the /sendKey URI.

Affected products

• Trustwave Secure Web Gateway: up to and including 11.8.0.27

Published 2017-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.