Customer-to-root escalation via error-document directive injection
Published Feb 4, 2023 · Updated Mar 25, 2025
Code injection in Froxlor before 2.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to escalate from a hosting customer account to root. The DirOptions error-document validator accepts line breaks and embedded Apache directives, allowing customer input to enter generated web-server configuration. A low-privileged customer can inject an IncludeOptional directive and cause root-context configuration processing with full host impact.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in Froxlor before 2.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to escalate from a hosting customer account to root. The DirOptions error-document validator accepts line breaks and embedded Apache directives, allowing customer input to enter generated web-server configuration. A low-privileged customer can inject an IncludeOptional directive and cause root-context configuration processing with full host impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-0671
- Published
- Feb 4, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 25, 2025
- Vendor
- Froxlor
- Product
- Froxlor
- Classifications
- CWE-94, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 4, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 25, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <2.0.10
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What is affected?
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- huntr.dev directory-options proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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