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Progress WhatsUp Gold: CVE-2018-5777: Vulnerability in Progress WhatsUp Gold

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Jan 24, 2018

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold before 2017 Plus SP1 (17.1.1). Remote clients can take advantage of a misconfiguration in the TFTP server that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the TFTP server via unspecified vectors.

Solution

progress-whatsup-gold-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2018-5777
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-5777
https://docs.ipswitch.com/NM/WhatsUpGold2017Plus/01_ReleaseNotes/17PlusSP1/#link4
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-17544

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