# CVE-2025-23170: Command injection in Director

> Attackers can execute arbitrary commands on Versa Director via command injection in the Shell-In-A-Box feature, requiring an upgrade to remediate.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 23 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6hw8-whvq-hmwp

## What is CVE-2025-23170?

CVE-2025-23170 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Versa Director, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform includes functionality to initiate SSH sessions to remote CPEs and the Director shell via Shell-In-A-Box. The underlying Python script, shell-connect.py, is vulnerable to command injection through the user argument. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. 

Exploitation Status: 

Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers.  

Workarounds or Mitigation: 

There are no workarounds to disable the GUI option. Versa recommends that Director be upgraded to one of the remediated software versions.

Weakness: CWE-77 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23170?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Versa-Networks Versa Director.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23170?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23170 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-23170 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23170 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Versa Director

- [CVE-2024-39717](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39717/): Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload (medium 6.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-42450](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42450/): Hardcoded credentials in Director (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-24288](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24288/): Hardcoded credentials in Director (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-25029](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25029/): Command injection in Versa Director (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-23173](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23173/): Information disclosure in Director (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23170 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23170 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Versa Director, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23170 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Versa Director. 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-2025-23170/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23170/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23170
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23170
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23170

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23170/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.