CVE-2015-2746

Websense TRITON 7.8.3 and V-Series < 7.8.4 - Authenticated Command Injection via CommandLineServlet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2015-2746. PoCs published by Han Sahin.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The writeup describes a command injection vulnerability in Websense Appliance Manager, allowing arbitrary code execution via the CommandLineServlet. The PoC demonstrates how to exploit this to read /etc/shadow by injecting commands into the Destination parameter.

Description

The network diagnostics tool (CommandLineServlet) in the Appliance Manager command line utility (CLU) in Websense TRITON 7.8.3 and V-Series appliances before 7.8.4 Hotfix 02 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "second" parameter of a command, as demonstrated by the Destination parameter in the ping command.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
by Han Sahin · textwebappsjava
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36423

The writeup describes a command injection vulnerability in Websense Appliance Manager, allowing arbitrary code execution via the CommandLineServlet. The PoC demonstrates how to exploit this to read /etc/shadow by injecting commands into the Destination parameter.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Websense Triton v7.8.3, Websense appliance modules V-Series v7.7
Auth required
Prerequisites: Authenticated access to the Websense Appliance Manager GUI
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Scores

EPSS 0.2558
EPSS Percentile 97.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-77
Status published
Products (2)
websense/triton 7.8.3
websense/v-series_appliances < 7.7
Published Mar 26, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026