CVE-2008-4318

published 2008-09-29

CVE-2008-4318: Observer 0.3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the query parameter to (1) whois.php or (2)…

Priority P2 63 critical 10 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

Observer 0.3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the query parameter to (1) whois.php or (2) netcmd.php.

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
project-observer	observer	<= 0.3.2.1	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—
project-observer	observer	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /html/whois.php↗

path /html/netcmd.php↗

command `/usr/bin/whois $_GET[query] | grep -v \%`↗

command `/bin/ping $_GET[query]`↗

command `/usr/sbin/traceroute $_GET[query]`↗

command `/usr/bin/nmap $_GET[query]`↗

• → Monitor HTTP GET requests to whois.php or netcmd.php containing shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, |, &, $, `, >, <) in the 'query' parameter, which are passed unsanitized to OS-level commands. ↗

• · The vulnerability affects Observer version 0.3.2.1 and earlier; the affected files are whois.php and netcmd.php located under the html/ directory of the installation. ↗

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