Netwin SurgeFTP up to 23c8 Web-based Administrative Console surgeftpmgr.cgi os command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Netwin SurgeFTP up to 23c8 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the file surgeftpmgr.cgi of the component Web-based Administrative Console. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2012-10028. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Netwin SurgeFTP up to 23c8. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file surgeftpmgr.cgi of the component Web-based Administrative Console. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Netwin SurgeFTP version 23c8 and prior contains a vulnerability in its web-based administrative console that allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary system commands via crafted POST requests to `surgeftpmgr.cgi`. This can lead to full remote code execution on the underlying system.

The weakness was disclosed by Spencer Mcintyre. It is possible to read the advisory at raw.githubusercontent.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-10028 since 08/05/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (23522) and EUVD (EUVD-2012-6573). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Netwin

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• SurgeFTP

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• 23c8

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: http://netwininfosolutions.com/

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