CVE-2013-6041

published 2014-12-27

CVE-2013-6041: index.php in Softaculous Webuzo before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a SOFTCookies sid cookie within…

Priority P3 57 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

index.php in Softaculous Webuzo before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a SOFTCookies sid cookie within a login action.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
softaculous	webuzo	<= 2.1.3	—
softaculous	webuzo	—	—
softaculous	webuzo	—	—
softaculous	webuzo	—	—

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

path /index.php?act=login↗

cookie SOFTCookies7972_sid=[value]`cat /etc/passwd > /home/admin/public_html/pwned.html`↗

port 2002↗

• → Detect shell metacharacter injection (backtick command substitution) in the SOFTCookies*_sid cookie on requests to /index.php with act=login parameter ↗
• → No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability; monitor unauthenticated GET requests to /index.php?act=login on port 2002 carrying backtick or other shell metacharacters in the SOFTCookies sid cookie ↗
• → Alert on creation of unexpected files under /home/admin/public_html/ as a post-exploitation indicator of successful command injection ↗

• · The vulnerable cookie name includes a numeric suffix (e.g., SOFTCookies7972_sid) that may vary per installation; detection rules should use a wildcard pattern such as SOFTCookies*_sid ↗
• · Webuzo listens on port 2002 by default; ensure network monitoring and WAF rules cover this non-standard port ↗
• · Versions prior to 2.1.4 are vulnerable; the vendor released a fix in version 2.1.4 ↗

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