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CVE-2022-44877
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Verified 2026-08-04
CWP Control Web Panel vulnerability
CWP Control Web Panel contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the login parameter, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
Remote attackers can inject OS commands through the login parameter without authentication, achieving arbitrary code execution on affected Control Web Panel instances. Active exploitation in the wild confirms practical attack viability.
CISA KEV Yes · 2023-01-174EPSS 0.99995 (verify live)5Exploit Weaponized · public PoC6CVSS 9.8 (CISA)3CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total3
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
24 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-01-17).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.99995 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: CWP, Control Web Panel. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CISA-assigned via the ADP container (CVE.org), version 3.1; the CNA left no metrics, so CISA's own score is used ahead of NVD.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-78 OS Command Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 12 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a functional/weaponized public exploit). Catalog entries: Metasploit module, nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious login request containing shell metacharacters to break out of the intended command context.
Business
Attacker gains unauthenticated remote code execution on the web panel server.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I execute system commands with the privileges of the web panel process to establish persistence or pivot laterally.
Business
Infrastructure hosting the control panel is fully compromised, enabling data theft, service disruption, or lateral movement to managed systems.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I enumerate and access hosted customer environments or administrative credentials stored on the compromised panel.
Business
Customer data and managed infrastructure become accessible to the attacker, creating cascading breach liability.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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