By today’s standards, VDesk’s codebase was dangerously trusting of user input. It lacked prepared statements, htmlspecialchars() filtering, and rigorous path sanitization.
: This is a more recent (2022) Broken Access Control vulnerability in the /api/v1/vdesk_[DOMAIN]/export
: Attackers can download and install web shells, granting them a permanent backdoor into the system.
In some variations of this application architecture, parameters meant to call localized language files or session logs can be manipulated to include local system files (e.g., /etc/passwd ) or remote malicious scripts. vdesk hangupphp3 exploit
When a user visits a maliciously crafted URL pointing to the vulnerable FirePass appliance, the browser sends a request containing the payload. The server includes this payload in the server response without proper sanitization, and the victim's browser executes the malicious script.
This technique, which leveraged the eval(name) JavaScript function suggested by researcher , allowed the attacker to load a remote script ( http://www.evil.foo/b ) from a third-party domain into the security context of the vulnerable FirePass site.
EdgeClient or a browser pre-fetch service requested the file out-of-sync with the session state. | Medium (5.4) | <
| CVE ID | Description | Severity (CVSS) | Impacted Versions | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Unrestricted File Upload leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the vShare section. | High (8.8) | <= v018 | | CVE-2022-45172 | Broken Access Control allowing privilege escalation to administrator. | Critical (9.8) | < v018 | | CVE-2022-45168 | 2FA Bypass via backup code generation before TOTP verification. | Medium (6.5) | <= v018 | | CVE-2022-45176 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the vShare uri parameter. | Medium (5.4) | <= v018 | | CVE-2022-45177 | Information Disclosure (Observable Response Discrepancy) revealing internal states. | High (7.5) | <= v031 |
Modify your php.ini configuration file to disable dangerous functions globally:
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: An incoming user connection fails structural checks inside the Visual Policy Editor (VPE)—such as failing an Active Directory lookup or failing an endpoint security posture inspection.
An important update was provided in May 2008: to exploit the vulnerability in , an extra equals sign ( = ) needed to be appended to the end of the URL:
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