VITEC Flamingo 4.12.2 Admin AJAX Endpoint admin/ajax/ping.php escapeshellarg/shell_exec host os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in VITEC Flamingo 4.12.2. It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function escapeshellarg/shell_exec of the file admin/ajax/ping.php of the component Admin AJAX Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument host leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-60121. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in VITEC Flamingo 4.12.2 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function escapeshellarg/shell_exec of the file admin/ajax/ping.php of the component Admin AJAX Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument host with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vitec Flamingo 4.12.2 contains an unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in the admin/ajax/ping.php endpoint that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by exploiting a double-evaluation flaw in shell argument handling. The endpoint applies escapeshellarg() to the user-supplied host POST parameter before passing it to a system wrapper, but the wrapper retrieves the decoded value from argv and incorporates it into a second shell_exec() call without escaping, allowing injected commands to execute with root privileges via passwordless sudo.

The advisory is shared for download at damiri.fr. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-60121 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/13/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

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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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• VITEC

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• Flamingo

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• 4.12.2

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