CVE-2019-15498 — cgi-bin/cmh/webcam

cgi-bin/cmh/webcam.sh in Vera Edge Home Controller 1.7.4452 allows remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary OS commands via --output argument injection in the username parameter to /cgi-bin/cmh/webcam.sh.

01What is this vulnerability?

cgi-bin/cmh/webcam.sh in Vera Edge Home Controller 1.7.4452 allows remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary OS commands via --output argument injection in the username parameter to /cgi-bin/cmh/webcam.sh.

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

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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: 2019-08-23T03:05:45.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:49:13.601Z

09References

• distributedcompute.com — https://distributedcompute.com/2019/08/22/vera-edge-home-controller-remote-shell…