CVE-2015-1561

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-07-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The escape_command function in include/Administration/corePerformance/getStats.php in Centreon (formerly Merethis Centreon) 2.5.4 and earlier (fixed in Centreon 19.10.0) uses an incorrect regular expression, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the ns_id parameter.

Affected products

centreon: through 2.5.4

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132607/Merethis-Centreon-2.5.4-SQL-Injection-Remote-Command-Execution.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535961/100/0/threaded
https://forge.centreon.com/projects/centreon/repository/revisions/387dffdd051dbc7a234e1138a9d06f3089bb55bb
https://github.com/centreon/centreon/commit/a78c60aad6fd5af9b51a6d5de5d65560ea37a98a#diff-27550b563fa8d660b64bca871a219cb1
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132607/Merethis-Centreon-2.5.4-SQL-Injection-Remote-Command-Execution.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535961/100/0/threaded
https://forge.centreon.com/projects/centreon/repository/revisions/387dffdd051dbc7a234e1138a9d06f3089bb55bb
https://github.com/centreon/centreon/commit/a78c60aad6fd5af9b51a6d5de5d65560ea37a98a#diff-27550b563fa8d660b64bca871a219cb1

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