Command Injection in Artica Proxy

1) Command Injection

EUVDB-ID: #VU36177

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7300

CWE-ID: CWE-77 - Command injection

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to execute arbitrary code.

Artica Proxy 3.06.200056 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by reading the ressources/settings.inc ldap_admin and ldap_password fields, using these credentials at logon.php, and then entering the commands in the admin.index.php command-line field.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Artica Proxy: 3.06.200056

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:artica_proxy:artica_proxy:3.06.200056:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://code610.blogspot.com/2019/01/rce-in-artica.html
https://github.com/c610/tmp/blob/master/aRtiCE.py

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated privileged user via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.