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CVE-2020-12078

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.

Affected products

• Opmantek Open-Audit: 3.3.1

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd
• https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a
• https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd
• https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a
• https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/

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