CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-17984
High (7.8) in ispconfig ispconfig. EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An unanchored /[a-z]{2}/ regular expression in ISPConfig before 3.1.13 makes it possible to include arbitrary files, leading to code execution. This is exploitable by authenticated users who have local filesystem access.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-185
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ispconfig:ispconfig
References
- https://0x09al.github.io/security/ispconfig/exploit/vulnerability/2018/08/20/bug-or-backdoor-ispconfig-rce.html
- https://github.com/0x09AL/0x09al.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2018-08-20-bug-or-backdoor-ispconfig-rce.markdown
- https://www.ispconfig.org/blog/ispconfig-3-1-13-released-important-security-bugfix/
- https://0x09al.github.io/security/ispconfig/exploit/vulnerability/2018/08/20/bug-or-backdoor-ispconfig-rce.html
- https://github.com/0x09AL/0x09al.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2018-08-20-bug-or-backdoor-ispconfig-rce.markdown