CVE-2016-9554 | Date: (C)2017-01-31 (M)2023-12-22 |
The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this->dtObj->executeCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -CVSS V3 Severity: | CVSS V2 Severity: |
CVSS Score : 7.2 | CVSS Score : 9.0 |
Exploit Score: 1.2 | Exploit Score: 8.0 |
Impact Score: 5.9 | Impact Score: 10.0 |
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CVSS V3 Metrics: | CVSS V2 Metrics: |
Attack Vector: NETWORK | Access Vector: NETWORK |
Attack Complexity: LOW | Access Complexity: LOW |
Privileges Required: HIGH | Authentication: SINGLE |
User Interaction: NONE | Confidentiality: COMPLETE |
Scope: UNCHANGED | Integrity: COMPLETE |
Confidentiality: HIGH | Availability: COMPLETE |
Integrity: HIGH | |
Availability: HIGH | |
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