CVE-2023-45499

published 2023-10-27

CVE-2023-45499: VinChin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* was discovered to contain hardcoded credentials.

Priority P2 64 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 hardcoded credentials.

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 /checkIpExists↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting the checkIpExists API endpoint for shell metacharacters or command injection payloads in input parameters, as this endpoint performs insufficient input validation. ↗
• → Alert on use of hardcoded credentials against VinChin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* login interfaces, as these versions contain known hardcoded credentials that may be leveraged for initial access. ↗
• → Detect exploitation attempts via the Metasploit module exploits/linux/http/vinchin_backup_recovery_cmd_inject targeting VinChin Backup & Recovery HTTP services. ↗

• · Hardcoded credentials affect all listed version branches (v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, v7.0.*); any deployment of these versions should be treated as compromised by default until patched or mitigated. ↗
• · Command injection is exploitable as the web server user; post-exploitation privilege escalation may follow. Scope of impact is not limited to data exfiltration — arbitrary OS command execution is possible. ↗

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