Security News > 2023 > January > Hackers exploit Control Web Panel flaw to open reverse shells
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability patched recently in Control Web Panel, a tool for managing servers formerly known as CentOS Web Panel.
On January 3, researcher Numan Türle at Gais Cyber Security, who had reported the issue around October last year, published a proof-of-concept exploit and a video showing how it works.
Three days later, security researchers noticed hackers exploiting the flaw to get remote access to unpatched systems and to find more vulnerable machines.
A technical analysis of the PoC exploit code is available from CloudSek, which ran a search for CWP servers on the Shodan platform and found more than 400,000 CWP instances accessible over the internet.
In some attacks, the hackers are using the exploit to start a reverse shell.
Leveraging CVE-2022-44877 is easy and with exploit code already public, all hackers have to do is find vulnerable targets, a menial task.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-05 | CVE-2022-44877 | OS Command Injection vulnerability in Control-Webpanel Webpanel 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. | 9.8 |