QID 150581

Date Published: 2022-10-10

QID 150581: WSO2 File Upload Remote Command Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-29464)

WSO2 is an open-source technology. It offers an enterprise platform for integrating application programming interfaces, applications, and web services locally and across the Internet.

Due to improper validation of user input, a malicious actor could upload an arbitrary file to a user controlled location of the server. By leveraging the arbitrary file upload vulnerability, it is further possible to gain remote code execution on the server.

Affected Products:
WSO2 API Manager 2.2.0, up to 4.0.0
WSO2 Identity Server 5.2.0, up to 5.11.0

QID Detection Logic (Unauthenticated):
This QID sends a HTTP GET request and checks for vulnerable version of WSO2 running on the target application.

By leveraging the vulnerability, a malicious actor may perform Remote Code Execution by uploading a specially crafted payload.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Critical - 10 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released patch, for more information please refer to WSO2-2021-1738
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    WSO2-2021-1738 URL Logo docs.wso2.com/display/Security/Security+Advisory+WSO2-2021-1738
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