CVE-2014-2988: egroupware Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-2988 is a high (CVSS 8.5) Code Injection vulnerability in egroupware. EPSS estimates a 1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 27-10-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

EGroupware Enterprise Line (EPL) before 1.1.20140505, EGroupware Community Edition before 1.8.007.20140506, and EGroupware before 14.1 beta allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code via crafted callback values to the call_user_func PHP function, as demonstrated using the newsettings[system] parameter. NOTE: this can be exploited by remote attackers by leveraging CVE-2014-2987.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.