RCE bug chain patched in CentOS Web Panel

24-Jan-22

A security researcher exploited a pair of flaws in the popular web hosting platform CentOS Web Panel (CWP) to gain preauthenticated remote command execution (RCE) as root.

Paulos Yibelo obtained RCE but use a null binary file inclusion payload to add a malicious API key, then utilising this API key to publish to a file and including this file via the file inclusion bug.

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