# CVE-2019-19699: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Authenticated administrators can escalate privileges to root by exploiting a misconfigured poller restart command that executes as root.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Apr 2020
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wwvc-xq5p-g468

## What is CVE-2019-19699?

CVE-2019-19699 is a high-severity vulnerability in Centreon Centreon, published on 6 Apr 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

There is Authenticated remote code execution in Centreon Infrastructure Monitoring Software through 19.10 via Pollers misconfiguration, leading to system compromise via apache crontab misconfiguration, This allows the apache user to modify an executable file executed by root at 22:30 every day. To exploit the vulnerability, someone must have Admin access to the Centreon Web Interface and create a custom main.php?p=60803&type=3 command. The user must then set the Pollers Post-Restart Command to this previously created command via the main.php?p=60901&o=c&server_id=1 URI. This is triggered via an export of the Poller Configuration.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19699?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Centreon Centreon.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-19699?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-19699 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-19699 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-19699 exists.

Public exploit code:

- Centreon =<19.10 Authenticated RCE (github_poc): https://github.com/SpengeSec/CVE-2019-19699
- Centreon Poller Authenticated Remote Command Execution (metasploit)

## Other vulnerabilities in Centreon Centreon

- [CVE-2021-37558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37558/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-17647](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17647/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-21024](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-21024/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-16194](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16194/): SQL injection in Centreon (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-19281](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-19281/): Centreon allows SNMP trap SQL Injection (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-19699 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-19699 is a high-severity vulnerability in Centreon Centreon, published on 6 Apr 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-19699 exists.

Affected product: Centreon Centreon. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19699/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19699/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19699
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19699
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-19699

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