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CVE-2024-44809

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability exists in the Pi Camera project, version 1.0, maintained by RECANTHA. The issue arises from improper sanitization of user input passed to the "position" GET parameter in the tilt.php script. An attacker can exploit this by sending crafted input data that includes malicious command sequences, allowing arbitrary commands to be executed on the server with the privileges of the web server user. This vulnerability is exploitable remotely and poses significant risk if the application is exposed to untrusted networks.

Affected products

• Recantha Pi Camera Project: 1.0

References

• https://github.com/recantha/camera-pi/blob/ef018d212288cb16404f0b050593d20f0dc0467b/www/tilt.php#L4
• https://jacobmasse.medium.com/cve-2024-44809-remote-code-execution-in-raspberry-pi-camera-project-4b8e3486a628

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