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Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-12078 · published 28 April 2020

CVE-2020-12078: Opmantek open-audit os command injection vulnerability

Opmantek · Open Audit

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.

8.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 10.0% · top 4.5% CWE-78 · OS command injection
8.8CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 9.0
10.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References, 6 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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

LinkTags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a PatchThird Party Advisory
https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/ ExploitThird Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a PatchThird Party Advisory
https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/ ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-12078), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.