CVE-2017-16666

EPSS 80.1%

Vexday Risk Score

60Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 80.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —

Lifecycle

29 Oct 2017Metasploit module available

04 Jan 2018Public PoC

05 Jan 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Xplico before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the name of an uploaded PCAP file. NOTE: this issue can be exploited without authentication by leveraging the user registration feature.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/145639/Xplico-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlunverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43430/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43430unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://blog.securityonion.net/2017/11/security-advisory-for-xplico-120.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145639/Xplico-Remote-Code-Execution.html https://pentest.blog/advisory-xplico-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-cve-2017-16666/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43430/https://www.xplico.org/archives/1538 http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/http/xplico_exec