Vulnerability in Vesta Control Panel (Cp)
CVE-2018-25117
VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 (2018-05-31) up to commit ee03eff (2018-06-13) contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS bot that uses Lua for second- and third-stage components. The compromise leaked administrative credentials (base64-encoded admin password and server domain) to an external URL during installation and/or resulted in the installer dropping and executing a DDoS malware payload under local system privileges. Compromised servers were subsequently observed participating in large-scale DDoS activity. Vesta acknowledged exploitation in the wild in October 2018.
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EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (35.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Vesta Control Panel (Cp) — versions a3f0fa1501d424477786e3e7150bb05c0b99518f
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.welivesecurity.com/2018/10/18/new-linux-chachaddos-malware-distributed-serv… (technical-description)
- github.com/outroll/vesta/commit/ee03eff016e03cb76fac7ae3a0f9d1ef0f8ee35b (patch)
- github.com/outroll/vesta/commit/a3f0fa1501d424477786e3e7150bb05c0b99518f (exploit, patch)
- forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php (issue-tracking)
- forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php (vendor-advisory, patch)
- vestacp.com/ (product)
- github.com/outroll/vesta (product)
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vestacp-debian-installer-malicious-backdoor-supply… (third-party-advisory)