CVE-2022-0073

Authenticated Remote Code Execution in OpenLiteSpeed Web Server

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Oct 27, 2022
Updated: May 5, 2025
Reserved: Dec 28, 2021

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in LiteSpeed Technologies OpenLiteSpeed Web Server and LiteSpeed Web Server dashboards allows Command Injection. This affects 1.7.0 versions before 1.7.16.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenLiteSpeed Web ServerLiteSpeed Technologies	1.7.0 to before 1.7.16.1Affected
LiteSpeed Web ServerLiteSpeed Technologies	1.7.0 to before 1.7.16.1Affected

References

https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/blob/v1.7.16/dist/admin/html.open/lib/CValidation.php#L565
https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/blob/v1.7.16.1/dist/admin/html.open/lib/CValidation.php#L565

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