CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating confirmed active exploitation in the wild. Its EPSS score suggests a 86.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.
CISA KEV Details
Status: This CVE is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Ransomware use: Unknown
Added to KEV: 2025-02-04
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Original NVD Description
PRTG Network Monitor before 18.2.40.1683 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to create users with read-write privileges (including administrator). A remote unauthenticated user can craft an HTTP request and override attributes of the 'include' directive in /public/login.htm and perform a Local File Inclusion attack, by including /api/addusers and executing it. By providing the 'id' and 'users' parameters, an unauthenticated attacker can create a user with read-write privileges (including administrator).
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