Threats / CyberPersons / CVE-2024-51567
CVE-2024-51567
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Verified 2026-08-04
CyberPersons CyberPanel vulnerability
CyberPanel contains incorrect default permissions allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as root.
Verdict
Today item, not a backlog item.
A default permissions misconfiguration in CyberPanel enables unauthenticated remote command execution with root privileges. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and associated with ransomware campaigns.
CISA KEV Yes · 2024-11-075Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.86725 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 103CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4
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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
127 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 2024-11-07), flagged for known ransomware use.
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.86725 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 10 (CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N) · Affected: CyberPersons, CyberPanel. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions — weakness family: Authorization / access control.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 9 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 discover CyberPanel is exposed on the network with default permissions that do not require authentication.
Business
The organization has deployed CyberPanel without hardening default security configurations.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I send a crafted request to execute arbitrary commands without providing credentials.
Business
Access controls fail to validate user identity before processing privileged operations.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I achieve command execution with root-level privileges on the CyberPanel host.
Business
The system grants maximum privileges to unauthenticated requests, enabling complete compromise.
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Data at risk — exfiltration narrative 4
Attacker
I deploy ransomware or establish persistent access across the infrastructure.
Business
Attackers leverage root access to encrypt data, exfiltrate information, or maintain long-term control.
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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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