PT-2024-39270

CVE-2024-8806

Published

2024-09-17

Updated

2024-12-20

Description by

CVSS 3.1

9.8

Critical

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cohesive Networks VNS3 (affected versions not specified)

Description: This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Cohesive Networks VNS3. Authentication is not required to exploit this issue. The specific flaw exists within the web service, which listens on TCP port 8000 by default. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute code in the context of root.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Mdisec

Mehmet Ince

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (\'OS Command Injection\')

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