CVE-2019-11074

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-434

Description

A Write to Arbitrary Location in Disk vulnerability exists in PRTG Network Monitor 19.1.49 and below that allows attackers to place files in arbitrary locations with SYSTEM privileges (although not controlling the contents of such files) due to insufficient sanitisation when passing arguments to the phantomjs.exe binary. In order to exploit the vulnerability, remote authenticated administrators need to create a new HTTP Full Web Page Sensor and set specific settings when executing the sensor.

Affected products

Paessler PRTG: through 19.1.49

References

https://how2itsec.blogspot.com/2019/10/security-fixes-in-prtg-1935152.html
https://sensepost.com/blog/2019/being-stubborn-pays-off-pt.-1-cve-2018-19204/
https://www.paessler.com/prtg/history/stable
https://how2itsec.blogspot.com/2019/10/security-fixes-in-prtg-1935152.html
https://sensepost.com/blog/2019/being-stubborn-pays-off-pt.-1-cve-2018-19204/
https://www.paessler.com/prtg/history/stable

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