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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