CVE-2021-46850 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

myVesta Control Panel before 0.9.8-26-43 and Vesta Control Panel before 0.9.8-26 are vulnerable to command injection. An authenticated and remote administrative user can execute arbitrary commands via the v_sftp_license parameter when sending HTTP POST requests to the /edit/server endpoint.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.15924.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:vestacp:control_panel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:vestacp:vesta_control_panel::::::::

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Vestacp Subscribe	Control Panel Subscribe Vesta Control Panel Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/06/necro-python-bot-adds-new-tricks.html
https://github.com/myvesta/vesta/commit/7991753ab7c5c568768028fb77554db8ea149f17
https://github.com/myvesta/vesta/releases/tag/0.9.8-26-43
https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta/commit/a4e4542a6d1351c2857b169f8621dd9a13a2e896
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49674

History

Wed, 07 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T14:29:33.754Z

Reserved: 2022-10-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-46850

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:17:42.463Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-24T14:15:50.067

Modified: 2025-05-07T15:15:52.560

Link: CVE-2021-46850

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-88

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