CVE-2022-44877login/index.php in CWP (aka Control Web Panel or CentOS Web Panel) 7 before 0.9.8.1147 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 100.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 17 Jan 2023
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
login/index.php in CWP (aka Control Web Panel or CentOS Web Panel) 7 before 0.9.8.1147 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in the login parameter.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as CWP Control Web Panel OS Command Injection Vulnerability.
- Added
- 17 Jan 2023
- Fix due (US federal)
- 7 Feb 2023
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 17 Jan 2023.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- CWP login.php Unauthenticated RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/control_web_panel_login_cmd_execRank excellentdisclosed 5 Jan 2023
Nuclei templates1 template
- CentOS Web Panel 7 <0.9.8.1147 - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-44877.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Control Web Panel 7 (CWP7) v0.9.8.1147 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51250webapps, phppublished 5 Apr 2023Not verified
- Centos Web Panel 7 v0.9.8.1147 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51194webapps, linuxpublished 1 Apr 2023Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 59 days later
· 59 days later
Published
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 100.0% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLfSvc1SYY (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/numanturle/c1e82c47f4cba24cff214e904c227386 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 20230106 Centos Web Panel 7 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution - CVE-2022-44877 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170388/Control-Web-Panel-7-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170820/Control-Web-Panel-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171725/Control-Web-Panel-7-CWP7-0.9.8.1147-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-44877 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-47807 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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