Arbitrary file write via injected vcrtrace
Published May 21, 2025 · Updated May 21, 2025
Argument injection in affected Checkmk releases allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files through special-agent settings. Some check and special-agent configurations pass attacker-controlled options to a command line, where injected --vcrtrace writes captured HTTP traffic to an unvalidated path. Authenticated access to the affected configuration is required, and the write is limited to traffic captured by the invoked check or agent.
Summary
What happened
Argument injection in affected Checkmk releases allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files through special-agent settings. Some check and special-agent configurations pass attacker-controlled options to a command line, where injected --vcrtrace writes captured HTTP traffic to an unvalidated path. Authenticated access to the affected configuration is required, and the write is limited to traffic captured by the invoked check or agent.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-1712
- Published
- May 21, 2025
- Updated
- May 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Checkmk GmbH
- Product
- Checkmk
- Classifications
- CWE-88
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 21, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.1.0
- Affected versionversion=2.2.0 <2.2.0p42
- Affected versionversion=2.3.0 <2.3.0p32
- Affected versionversion=2.4.0 <2.4.0p1
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