Authenticated command injection via unsanitized network values
Published Mar 31, 2025 · Updated Apr 1, 2025
Command injection in NovaStar CX40 Pro 2.0 through 2.44 allows remote authenticated users to execute commands from an adjacent network. In /usr/nova/bin/netconfig, sprintf inserts user-controlled network values into shell command strings that system and popen execute without neutralizing metacharacters. Low-privilege controller access is required, and injected commands can read or alter device data or interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Command injection in NovaStar CX40 Pro 2.0 through 2.44 allows remote authenticated users to execute commands from an adjacent network. In /usr/nova/bin/netconfig, sprintf inserts user-controlled network values into shell command strings that system and popen execute without neutralizing metacharacters. Low-privilege controller access is required, and injected commands can read or alter device data or interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-3008
- Published
- Mar 31, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 1, 2025
- Vendor
- NovaStar
- Product
- CX40 Pro
- Classifications
- CWE-74, CWE-77, T1059
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 31, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=2.0
- Affected versionversion=2.1
- Affected versionversion=2.10
- Affected versionversion=2.11
- Affected versionversion=2.12
- Affected versionversion=2.13
- Affected versionversion=2.14
- Affected versionversion=2.15
- Affected versionversion=2.16
- Affected versionversion=2.17
- Affected versionversion=2.18
- Affected versionversion=2.19
- Affected versionversion=2.2
- Affected versionversion=2.20
- Affected versionversion=2.21
- Affected versionversion=2.22
- Affected versionversion=2.23
- Affected versionversion=2.24
- Affected versionversion=2.25
- Affected versionversion=2.26
- Affected versionversion=2.27
- Affected versionversion=2.28
- Affected versionversion=2.29
- Affected versionversion=2.3
- Affected versionversion=2.30
- Affected versionversion=2.31
- Affected versionversion=2.32
- Affected versionversion=2.33
- Affected versionversion=2.34
- Affected versionversion=2.35
- Affected versionversion=2.36
- Affected versionversion=2.37
- Affected versionversion=2.38
- Affected versionversion=2.39
- Affected versionversion=2.4
- Affected versionversion=2.40
- Affected versionversion=2.41
- Affected versionversion=2.42
- Affected versionversion=2.43
- Affected versionversion=2.44
- Affected versionversion=2.5
- Affected versionversion=2.6
- Affected versionversion=2.7
- Affected versionversion=2.8
- Affected versionversion=2.9
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- CX40 netconfig shell-metacharacter proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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