CVE-2007-3010
CRITICALCVE-2007-3010 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-77 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-04-15) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
masterCGI in the Unified Maintenance Tool in Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise Communication Server R7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-04-15. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-05-06.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2007-3010.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2007-3010 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,415 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
masterCGI in the Unified Maintenance Tool in Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise Communication Server R7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the user parameter during a ping action.
Affected Products
omnipcx enterprise communication serveral-enterpriseResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
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Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2007-3010 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.
How to detect CVE-2007-3010
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2007-3010 -u https://target- Template
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX - Remote Command Execution
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Any user with access to the web interface could execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the webservers.
- Remediation
- Update to supported versions that filter shell metacharacters in the "user" parameter.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (king-alexander), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
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