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Critical levels of detections in the wild
FortiGuard Labs observed a critical level of attack attempts in the wild targeting a 2-year-old vulnerability found on C-DATA Web Management System. Learn More »
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Background
The vulnerability tagged as CVE-2022-4257 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system. The exploit has been made publicly available; and as of now, we are not aware of any patches available from the vendor.
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The vulnerability tagged as CVE-2022-4257 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system. The exploit has been made publicly available; and as of now, we are not aware of any patches available from the vendor.
April 30, 2024: April 25, 2024: FortiGuard Labs observed and blocked attack attempts on 40,000+ unique IPS devices in the week of the release of this outbreak. The majority of the blocked attacks are from IPS devices located in Japan, the United States and Australia.
April 29, 2024: April 29, 2024: FortiGuard Labs raised the severity from medium to high with the continuous exploitation attempts reaching to almost 50,000 unique IPS devices.
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