A vulnerability was found in PaperThin Commonspot Content Server up to 8.0.0. It has been classified as very critical. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

PaperThin CommonSpot before 7.0.2 and 8.x before 8.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in an unspecified context.

The weakness was published 04/15/2014 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-2874 since 04/15/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/15/2022). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73611 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 8.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (73611). Similar entries are available at 69359, 69358, 69357 and 69356.

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