Vulnerability record · CVE-2019-19699 · published 6 April 2020
CVE-2019-19699: Centreon improper privilege management vulnerability
Centreon · Centreon
There is Authenticated remote code execution in Centreon Infrastructure Monitoring Software through 19.10 via Pollers misconfiguration, leading to system compromise via apache crontab misconfiguration, This allows the apache user to modify an executable file executed by root at 22:30 every day. To exploit the vulnerability, someone must have Admin access to the Centreon Web Interface and create a custom main.php?p=60803&type=3 command. The user must then set the Pollers Post-Restart Command to this previously created command via the main.php?p=60901&o=c&server_id=1 URI. This is triggered via an export of the Poller Configuration.
Description
There is Authenticated remote code execution in Centreon Infrastructure Monitoring Software through 19.10 via Pollers misconfiguration, leading to system compromise via apache crontab misconfiguration, This allows the apache user to modify an executable file executed by root at 22:30 every day. To exploit the vulnerability, someone must have Admin access to the Centreon Web Interface and create a custom main.php?p=60803&type=3 command. The user must then set the Pollers Post-Restart Command to this previously created command via the main.php?p=60901&o=c&server_id=1 URI. This is triggered via an export of the Poller Configuration.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://download.centreon.com/ | Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/SpengeSec/CVE-2019-19699 | ExploitThird Party Advisory |
| https://spenge.pw/cves/ | Third Party Advisory |
| https://twitter.com/SpengeSec/status/1204418071764463618 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.centreon.com/ | Vendor Advisory |
| https://download.centreon.com/ | Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/SpengeSec/CVE-2019-19699 | ExploitThird Party Advisory |
| https://spenge.pw/cves/ | Third Party Advisory |
| https://twitter.com/SpengeSec/status/1204418071764463618 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.centreon.com/ | Vendor Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2019-19699), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.
