CVE-2022-33941 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2022-33941

PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command...

Vulnerability Description

PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Alfasado Inc.

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Affected Software

PowerCMS XMLRPC API
Vulnerable Versions:
PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series), and PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL)

Timeline

Official Publish: September 8th, 2022
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.