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CVE-2022-44877 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-06-22

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 · 2023-01-173EPSS 0.99989 (verify live)4Exploit Weaponized · public PoC5
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Exploit 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
23 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).
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.99989 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: CWP, Control Web Panel. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
NVD ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-78 OS Command Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
NVD ↗Reported
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution 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.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board
1

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.
2

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.
3

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.
04

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.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • EPSS probability (FIRST)
  • Weaponized exploit available (VulnCheck)
  • 23 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CWE weakness mapping (NVD)
  • Public exploit availability
  • Catalogued by mitre (CNA)
  • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.
  • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by mitreCNA
    Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.