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CVE-2014-125118
published 2025-07-25

CVE-2014-125118: A command injection vulnerability exists in the eScan Web Management Console version 5.5-2. The application fails to properly sanitize the 'pass' parameter…

PriorityP271critical9.4CVSS 4.0
AVNACLATNPRLUINVCHVIHVAHSCHSIHSAHEXCRXIRXARXMAVXMACXMATXMPRXMUIXMVCXMVIXMVAXMSCXMSIXMSAXSXAUXRXVXREXUX
EXPLOIT
EPSS
3.26%
86.8th percentile
A command injection vulnerability exists in the eScan Web Management Console version 5.5-2. The application fails to properly sanitize the 'pass' parameter when processing login requests to login.php, allowing an authenticated attacker with a valid username to inject arbitrary commands via a specially crafted password value. Successful exploitation results in remote code execution. Privilege escalation to root is possible by abusing the runasroot utility with mwconf-level privileges.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microworldescan_web_management_console——

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

pathlogin.php↗
processrunasroot↗
  • →Monitor HTTP POST requests to login.php targeting the 'pass' parameter for shell metacharacters or command injection payloads (e.g., semicolons, backticks, pipes, $() constructs). ↗
  • →Alert on execution of the 'runasroot' utility spawned from the eScan Web Management Console process context, which indicates post-exploitation privilege escalation. ↗
  • →Look for HTTP requests containing 'CheckPass' in the login flow of the eScan Web Management Console as the injection point for malformed password values. ↗
  • ·Exploitation requires a valid username — unauthenticated attackers cannot directly exploit this vulnerability; detection should account for authenticated sessions preceding the injection attempt. ↗
  • ·The Metasploit module was tested specifically on eScan 5.5-2 on Ubuntu 12.04; behavior on other OS distributions or eScan versions may differ. ↗
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