CVE-2018-1000042

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2018-1000042 · Published 09/02/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1000042 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting squert (securityonion).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.9%, higher than 90.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
squert securityonion	`≥ 1.1.1, ≤ 1.6.7`	No fix yet

Description

Security Onion Solutions Squert version 1.3.0 through 1.6.7 contains a CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection) vulnerability in .inc/callback.php that can result in execution of OS Commands. This attack appear to be exploitable via Web request to .inc/callback.php with the payload in the data or obj parameters, used in autocat(). This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.0.

References

blog.securityonion.net/2018/01/security-advisory-for-squert.html · Patch

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