CVE-2015-1561: centreon Command Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-1561 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Command Injection vulnerability in centreon. EPSS estimates a 9.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 14-07-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The escape_command function in include/Administration/corePerformance/getStats.php in Centreon (formerly Merethis Centreon) 2.5.4 and earlier (fixed in Centreon 19.10.0) uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the ns_id parameter.

• CWE-77Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.