# CVE-2020-12078: An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-04-28 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.

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## References

- https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd
- https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/
- https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://github.com/84KaliPleXon3/CVE-2020-12078
- https://github.com/mhaskar/CVE-2020-12078

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