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CVE-2023-50094

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

reNgine before 2.1.2 allows OS Command Injection if an adversary has a valid session ID. The attack places shell metacharacters in an api/tools/waf_detector/?url= string. The commands are executed as root via subprocess.check_output.

Affected products

• yogeshojha rengine: through 2.0.2

References

• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/blob/53d9f505f04861a5040195ea71f20907ff90577a/web/api/views.py#L268-L275
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/blob/5e120bd5f9dfbd1da82a193e8c9702e483d38d22/web/api/views.py#L195
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/commit/3d5f1724dd12cf9861443742e7d7c02ff8c75a6f
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/commit/edd3c85ee16f93804ad38dac5602549d2d30a93e
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/releases
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/security
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/security/advisories/GHSA-fx7f-f735-vgh4
• https://www.mattz.io/posts/cve-2023-50094/
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/blob/5e120bd5f9dfbd1da82a193e8c9702e483d38d22/web/api/views.py#L195
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/releases
• https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine/security
• https://www.mattz.io/posts/cve-2023-50094/

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