CMS Made Simple 2.2.8 Administrator Account command injection

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A vulnerability was found in CMS Made Simple 2.2.8 (Content Management System) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Administrator Account. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in CMS Made Simple 2.2.8. It is possible, with an administrator account, to achieve command injection by modifying the path of the e-mail executable in Mail Settings, setting "sendmail" in the "Mailer" option, and launching the "Forgot your password" feature.

The bug was discovered 03/06/2019. The weakness was disclosed 03/26/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cmsmadesimple.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-9059 since 02/23/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 20 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: Command injection
CWE: CWE-77 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1202

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Remote: Yes

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02/23/2019 🔍
03/06/2019 +11 days 🔍
03/26/2019 +20 days 🔍
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05/21/2020 +421 days 🔍

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Advisory: cmsmadesimple.org
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CVE: CVE-2019-9059 (🔍)
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Created: 03/27/2019 08:29
Updated: 05/21/2020 18:49
Changes: 03/27/2019 08:29 (56), 05/21/2020 18:49 (2)
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