The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this->dtObj->executeCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-28T12:38:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:50:38.595Z

Reserved: 2016-11-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9554

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-28T12:59:00.180

Modified: 2017-03-13T14:58:45.913

Link: CVE-2016-9554

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