Barracuda
CVE-2023-26213
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
On Barracuda CloudGen WAN Private Edge Gateway devices before 8 webui-sdwan-1089-8.3.1-174141891, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in /ajax/update_certificate - a crafted HTTP request. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Avoid passing user input to shell commands. Use language-specific APIs instead of shell execution. Apply strict input validation with allowlists.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as OS Command Injection (CWE-78), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host. On Barracuda CloudGen WAN Private Edge Gateway devices before 8 webui-sdwan-1089-8.3.1-174141891, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in /ajax/update_certificate - a crafted HTTP request allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. For example, a name field can contain :password and a password field can contain shell metacharacters. Affected products include: Barracuda T100B Firmware, Barracuda T200C Firmware, Barracuda T400C Firmware, Barracuda T600D Firmware, Barracuda T900B Firmware. Version information: before 8.
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
On Barracuda CloudGen WAN Private Edge Gateway devices before 8 webui-sdwan-1089-8.3.1-174141891, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in /ajax/update_certificate - a crafted HTTP request allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. For example, a name field can contain :password and a password field can contain shell metacharacters.
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
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