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CVE-2019-17642

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

An issue was discovered in Centreon before 18.10.8, 19.10.1, and 19.04.2. It allows CSRF with resultant remote command execution via shell metacharacters in a POST to centreon-autodiscovery-server/views/scan/ajax/call.php in the Autodiscovery plugin.

Affected products

• centreon: from 18.0.0 before 18.10.8; from 19.04.0 before 19.04.2; from 19.10.0 before 19.10.1 — fixed in 18.10.8, 19.04.2, 19.10.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: centreon 18.10.8, 19.04.2, 19.10.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/18.10/centreon-auto-discovery-18.10.8.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/19.04/centreon-auto-discovery-19.04.2.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/19.10/centreon-auto-discovery-19.10.1.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon/en/latest/release_notes/centreon-19.10/index.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/18.10/centreon-auto-discovery-18.10.8.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/19.04/centreon-auto-discovery-19.04.2.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon-auto-discovery/en/latest/release_notes/19.10/centreon-auto-discovery-19.10.1.html
• https://documentation.centreon.com/docs/centreon/en/latest/release_notes/centreon-19.10/index.html

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