CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-25671

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.66%

48th percentile - higher than 48% of all known CVEs

Summary

VA MAX 8.3.4 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the mtu_eth0 parameter. Attackers can send POST requests to the changeip.php endpoint with a malicious payload in the mtu_eth0 field to execute commands as the apache user.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated attacker can gain full control over the server, leading to compromise of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade VA MAX to the latest version. If an upgrade is not available, restrict access to the changeip.php endpoint to trusted users and apply input filtering.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

VA MAX 8.3.4 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the mtu_eth0 parameter. Attackers can send POST requests to the changeip.php endpoint with malicious payload in the mtu_eth0 field to execute commands as the apache user.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS