CVE-2023-0649
Command Injection in Dst-Admin Project Dst-Admin 1.5.0
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-0649 is a medium-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Dst-Admin Project Dst-Admin. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 12% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2023-0649 is a command-injection vulnerability in dst-admin version 1.5.0. It resides in the /home/sendBroadcast endpoint, where unsanitized input supplied to the message parameter is passed directly to an operating-system command. The flaw is tracked as CWE-77 and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.3.
An attacker with a low-privileged account can send a crafted HTTP request to the endpoint over the network and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying host, achieving limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Public exploit code has been published, confirming the issue is remotely triggerable without user interaction.
EPSS for the vulnerability has remained flat at 0.0626 since disclosure, indicating no measurable increase in observed exploitation activity. The referenced GitHub repository and Vuldb entries contain only proof-of-concept details and do not describe vendor patches or configuration work-arounds.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-12683
Vulnerability Data
A vulnerability has been found in dst-admin 1.5.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /home/sendBroadcast. The manipulation of the argument message leads to command injection. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has…
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been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-220036.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reduce command injection defects, but leaves a minority slice (e.g. incomplete implementation of those practices, outsourced development without full assurance, or post-SDLC changes) where the weakness can still arise and be exploitable.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. distrust external input, secure session control, data validation/sanitization, least privilege) and design reviews that can stop command injection from being introduced, but this is only a minority slice of CWE-77 because the weakness can still arise in code that bypasses those principles, in non-reviewed components, or in runtime injection vectors the architecture review does not reach.
Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.
Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-77, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.