Vesta Control Panel up to 0.9.8-23 escapeshellarg os command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Vesta Control Panel up to 0.9.8-23 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function escapeshellarg. This manipulation causes os command injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-9859. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Vesta Control Panel up to 0.9.8-23 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function escapeshellarg. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vesta Control Panel (VestaCP) 0.9.7 through 0.9.8-23 is vulnerable to an authenticated command execution that can result in remote root access on the server. The platform works with PHP as the frontend language and uses shell scripts to execute system actions. PHP executes shell script through the dangerous command exec. This function can be dangerous if arguments passed to it are not filtered. Every user input in VestaCP that is used as an argument is filtered with the escapeshellarg function. This function comes from the PHP library directly and its description is as follows: "escapeshellarg() adds single quotes around a string and quotes/escapes any existing single quotes allowing you to pass a string directly to a shell function and having it be treated as a single safe argument." It means that if you give Username, it will have 'Username' as a replacement. This works well and protects users from exploiting this potentially dangerous exec function. Unfortunately, VestaCP uses this escapeshellarg function incorrectly in several places.

The weakness was released 03/10/2020. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-9859 since 03/18/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• Vesta

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• Control Panel

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• 0.9.8-23

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