# CVE-2020-13151: Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua, as

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module, 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-08-05 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua, as part of a database query. It attempts to restrict code execution by disabling os.execute() calls, but this is insufficient. Anyone with network access can use a crafted UDF to execute arbitrary OS commands on all nodes of the cluster at the permission level of the user running the Aerospike service.

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## References

- https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/security/access-control/index.html#create-users-and-assign-roles
- https://b4ny4n.github.io/network-pentest/2020/08/01/cve-2020-13151-poc-aerospike.html
- https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3
- https://www.aerospike.com/enterprise/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160106/Aerospike-Database-5.1.0.3-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160451/Aerospike-Database-UDF-Lua-Code-Execution.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49067
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/misc/aerospike_database_udf_cmd_exec.rb
- https://github.com/ByteMe1001/CVE-2020-13151-POC-Aerospike-Server-Host-Command-Execution-RCE-
- https://github.com/b4ny4n/CVE-2020-13151

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