Information disclosure in Vesta Control Panel

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU31176

Risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 8.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000884

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Vesta CP version Prior to commit f6f6f9cfbbf2979e301956d1c6ab5c44386822c0 -- any release prior to 0.9.8-18 contains a CWE-208 / Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy vulnerability in Password reset code -- web/reset/index.php, line 51 that can result in Possible to determine password reset codes, attacker is able to change administrator password. This attack appear to be exploitable via Unauthenticated network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in After commit f6f6f9cfbbf2979e301956d1c6ab5c44386822c0 -- release version 0.9.8-19.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Vesta Control Panel: 0.9.8-1 - 0.9.8-17

External links

http://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta/commit/5f68c1b634abec2d5a4f83156bfd223d3a792f77#diff-4d7863e8c24a5e6102073acc2fb0f227

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.