CVE-2022-33941 (GCVE-0-2022-33941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-08 07:10 – Updated: 2024-08-03 08:16
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Summary
PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • OS Command Injection
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS XMLRPC API Affected: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series), and PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL)
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