CVE-2023-45498

published 2023-10-27

CVE-2023-45498: VinChin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability.

Priority P2 75 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

VinChin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vinchin	vinchin_backup_and_recovery	5.0 – 7.0	—

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

url /api/v2/system/checkIpExists↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting the checkIpExists API endpoint for shell metacharacters or command injection payloads (e.g., semicolons, pipes, backticks, $() constructs) in input parameters. ↗
• → Alert on unexpected OS-level command execution spawned by the VinChin web server process, which may indicate successful exploitation of CVE-2023-45498. ↗
• → Scope detection to VinChin Backup & Recovery versions v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* — these are the confirmed vulnerable version ranges. ↗

• · The Metasploit module targets the Linux HTTP service of VinChin Backup & Recovery; exploitation context is limited to the web server user privilege level — post-exploitation privilege escalation steps are not described in the available sources. ↗

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