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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVE-2020-7357

High
9.9/10

Summary

Cayin CMS suffers from an authenticated OS semi-blind command injection vulnerability using default credentials. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the 'NTP_Server_IP' HTTP POST parameter in system.cgi page. This issue affects several branches and versions of the CMS application, including CME-SE, CMS-60, CMS-40, CMS-20, and CMS version 8.2, 8.0, and 7.5.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-78 - OS Command Injection

The OS command injection weakness (also known as shell injection) is a vulnerability which enables an attacker to run arbitrary OS commands on a server. This is done by modifying the intended downstream OS command and injecting arbitrary commands, enabling the execution of unauthorized OS commands. This has the potential to fully compromise the application along with all of its data, and, if the compromised process does not follow the principle of least privileges, it may compromise other parts of the hosting infrastructure as well. This weakness is listed as number ten in the 'CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses'.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published