CVE-2018-15529 — A command injection vulnerability in maintenance

A command injection vulnerability in maintenance.cgi in Mutiny "Monitoring Appliance" before 6.1.0-5263 allows authenticated users, with access to the admin interface, to inject arbitrary commands within the filename of a system upgrade upload.

01What is this vulnerability?

A command injection vulnerability in maintenance.cgi in Mutiny "Monitoring Appliance" before 6.1.0-5263 allows authenticated users, with access to the admin interface, to inject arbitrary commands within the filename of a system upgrade upload.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-08-28T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T09:54:03.513Z

09References

• doddsecurity.com — https://doddsecurity.com/135/remote-command-execution-on-the-monitoring-applianc…
• github.com — https://github.com/doddr/Security-Advisories/tree/master/Mutiny/CVE-2018-15529
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149065/Mutiny-Monitoring-Appliance-Command-…
• www.mutiny.com — https://www.mutiny.com/mutiny-support/release-summary/