Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach exposed sar2html web interface
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ExploitCall unauthenticated deleteHost/deleteRange/deleteAll endpoint
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ExecutionDelete host and report data
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ImpactLoss of monitoring data integrity/availability
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication mechanism validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Defense Evasion, Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a network-reachable sar2html 4.0.0 instance whose web interface (sar2html.py) is exposed to the attacker; the deleteHost/deleteRange/deleteAll functions perform their destructive operations without any authentication check, so no credentials, user interaction, or special configuration are needed (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The primary limiting factor is exposure: sar2html is typically an internal reporting tool, so impact is constrained to environments that deploy it and make the interface reachable to the attacker, and impact is limited to integrity/availability of monitoring data (no confidentiality exposure). |
| Impact | This is a genuinely medium-severity, low-priority issue rather than a critical threat, and the signals are internally consistent. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) correctly describes a remotely reachable, unauthenticated, low-complexity flaw, but the impact metrics are deliberately limited: VC:N/VI:L/VA:L with no subsequent-system impact (SC:N/SI:N/SA:N), yielding a base score of 5.5. The E:P (Proof-of-Concept) threat metric aligns with the description's statement that an exploit has been publicly disclosed. There is NO CISA KEV listing and NO EPSS score in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active, widespread exploitation - exploitation status is limited to 'publicly available exploit code exists.' The missing-authentication weakness (CWE-287) on delete operations means the real-world harm is data destruction/tampering in the monitoring tool, not code execution or data theft. The most material risk-reducing factor is product prevalence: sar2html is an obscure open-source sysstat-to-HTML reporting utility with a tiny footprint, and the project itself has not responded to the issue report, so expect no coordinated patch. Net: do not treat as an emergency; prioritize only if sar2html is actually exposed in your environment. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who can reach the sar2html web interface over the network, with no credentials, invokes the deleteHost, deleteRange, or deleteAll functionality directly and removes stored host/report data from the monitoring tool. Because the delete endpoints lack authentication (AV:N/PR:N/UI:N), this requires only a crafted HTTP request to the exposed instance. Public exploit/disclosure details exist, lowering the skill needed to reproduce it. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Unauthenticated remote attackers can delete monitoring data and reports from cemtan sar2html 4.0.0 because the deleteHost, deleteRange and deleteAll routines in sar2html.py carry out their destructive operations without performing any authentication or authorization check. Exploitation requires only that the sar2html web interface (sar2html.py) be reachable over the network - the CVSS 4.0 vector is AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N with VI:L and VA:L, meaning no credentials or user interaction are needed and the result is partial loss of integrity and availability of stored sar/sysstat data, with no confidentiality impact. Publicly available exploit code exists (the CVSS 4.0 vector carries E:P and the finder disclosed the issue publicly), but there is no indication that this is confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV) - it is a medium-severity, low-priority issue whose practical risk is bounded by exposure, since sar2html is usually an internal reporting tool.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis: the project was notified early via GitHub issue #21 (https://github.com/cemtan/sar2html/issues/21) and has not responded, so there is no tagged fixed version to upgrade to and no upstream commit referenced in the available data. Until a fix ships, the most effective control is to stop exposing the interface: place sar2html behind a reverse proxy that enforces authentication (HTTP Basic, mTLS, or SSO) and restrict access to trusted management hosts - the trade-off is that any existing unauthenticated integrations or dashboards embedding sar2html will need credentials and may break. If the deletion features are not needed, remove or comment out the deleteHost/deleteRange/deleteAll routes (or the underlying write/delete filesystem calls) in sar2html.py and run the service against a read-only volume or container filesystem so destructive writes fail - the trade-off is a maintenance burden on upgrades and loss of legitimate cleanup functions. Additionally, keep offline backups of the parsed sar/sysstat report store so deleted data can be restored, and monitor access logs for direct requests to the deletion endpoints; because exploitation requires no authentication and a public proof-of-concept exists, network-level filtering or an authenticating proxy should be considered mandatory rather than optional for any internet-reachable instance. Note that the project repository https://github.com/cemtan/sar2html/ should be monitored for a patched release, at which point upgrading to the fixed tag supersedes these workarounds.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
sar2html is a small Python web front end that parses and renders sysstat/sar performance output, and it routes requests through the single module sar2html.py. The flaw maps to CWE-287 (Improper Authentication): the request handlers bound to the deleteHost, deleteRange and deleteAll operations act on the application's stored host/report data without ever verifying a session, credential, or administrative role. Because no authentication gate exists in the handler path, the routing layer itself - not a weak password or a bypassable token - is the root cause, and any HTTP client that can reach the endpoint can invoke the destructive actions directly. The supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/E:P) confirms the parameter context is network-reachable with no privileges required and no user interaction, while the confidentiality impact is None and integrity/availability impact is Low. sar2html is not accompanied by CPE data in this report; the affected artifact is the upstream GitHub project cemtan/sar2html at release 4.0.0, and the issue was filed as GitHub issue #21.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Unauthenticated remote delete functions give PR:N/AV:N/AC:L/UI:N; impact is data deletion so I:L and A:L with no confidentiality (C:N) and no scope change.
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CVSS VectorVendor: vuldb
DescriptionCVE.org
A security vulnerability has been detected in cemtan sar2html 4.0.0. This affects the function deleteHost/deleteRange/deleteAll of the file sar2html.py. Such manipulation leads to missing authentication. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-101623
GHSA-pp34-5rjg-ph8p
NVD
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EPSS
VulDB
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