CVE-2017-18044

CRITICAL

Commvault < 11.0 - OS Command Injection

Title source: rule

Description

A Command Injection issue was discovered in ContentStore/Base/CVDataPipe.dll in Commvault before v11 SP6. A certain message parsing function inside the Commvault service does not properly validate the input of an incoming string before passing it to CreateProcess. As a result, a specially crafted message can inject commands that will be executed on the target operating system. Exploitation of this vulnerability does not require authentication and can lead to SYSTEM level privilege on any system running the cvd daemon. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-3195.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC 4 stars
by securifera · poc
https://github.com/securifera/CVE-2017-18044-Exploit
metasploit WORKING POC GOOD
by b0yd · rubypocwin
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/misc/commvault_cmd_exec.rb

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.8265
EPSS Percentile 99.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (2)
commvault/commvault 11.0 sp1 (5 CPE variants)
commvault/commvault < 11.0
Published Jan 19, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026