CVE-2019-10669 Command injection in n/a

High 7.2 Published Updated

Attackers can execute arbitrary commands on the server via improper input sanitization in LibreNMS collectd graph generation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2019-10669?

CVE-2019-10669 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Librenms Librenms, published on 9 Sep 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in LibreNMS through 1.47. There is a command injection vulnerability in html/includes/graphs/device/collectd.inc.php where user supplied parameters are filtered with the mysqli_escape_real_string function. This function is not the appropriate function to sanitize command arguments as it does not escape a number of command line syntax characters such as ` (backtick), allowing an attacker to inject commands into the variable $rrd_cmd, which gets executed via passthru().

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10669?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Librenms Librenms.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10669?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10669 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2019-10669 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-10669 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-rxqm-5773-c9g6.

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