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High · 8.5 Public exploit CVE-2022-24715 EUVD-2022-29576

Arbitrary code execution for authenticated users in Icinga Web 2

Published Mar 8, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Icinga Web 2 is an open source monitoring web interface, framework and command-line interface. Authenticated users, with access to the configuration, can create SSH resource files in unintended directories, leading to the execution of arbitrary code. This issue has been resolved in versions 2.8.6, 2.9.6 and 2.10 of Icinga Web 2. Users unable to upgrade should limit access to the Icinga Web 2 configuration.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Icinga icingaweb2 < 2.8.6, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 icingaweb2 2.9.6-1 —
Debian 13 icingaweb2 2.9.6-1 —
Debian 12 icingaweb2 2.9.6-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS icingaweb2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS icingaweb2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS icingaweb2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS icingaweb2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 icingaweb2 2.8.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0097-1
SUSE Package Hub 12 icingaweb2 2.8.6-15.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0087-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.3 icingaweb2 2.8.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0097-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 3 repositories

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Advisories 2

References