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TI-2023-15384 Aliases CVE-2023-32080GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2

Wings vulnerable to escape to host from installation container

Priority MEDIUM 43CWE-250Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-250.

Summary

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl Panel. A vulnerability affecting versions prior to 1.7.5 and versions 1.11.0 prior to 1.11.6 impacts anyone running the affected versions of Wings. This vulnerability can be used to gain access to the host system running Wings if a user is able to modify an server's install script or the install script executes code supplied by the user (either through environment variables, or commands that execute commands based off of user data). This vulnerability has been resolved in version `v1.11.6` of Wings, and has been back-ported to the 1.7 release series in `v1.7.5`. Anyone running `v1.11.x` should upgrade to `v1.11.6` and anyone running `v1.7.x` should upgrade to `v1.7.5`. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading. Running Wings with a rootless container runtime may mitigate the severity of any attacks, however the majority of users are using container runtimes that run as root as per the Wings documentation. SELinux may prevent attackers from performing certain operations against the host system, however privileged containers have a lot of freedom even on systems with SELinux enabled. It should be noted that this was a known attack vector, for attackers to easily exploit this attack it would require compromising an administrator account on a Panel. However, certain eggs (the data structure that holds the install scripts that get passed to Wings) have an issue where they are unknowingly executing shell commands with escalated privileges provided by untrusted user data.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00917 60th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed wings (pterodactyl): 1.7.5, 1.11.6github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go): 1.7.5, 1.11.6

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
pterodactylwingsbefore 1.7.5; 1.11.0 to before 1.11.61.7.5, 1.11.6Patch availableCNA
—github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go)before 1.7.51.7.5Patch availableGHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2
—github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go)1.11.0 to before 1.11.61.11.6Patch availableGHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2
  • wings Vendorpterodactyl Affected before 1.7.5; 1.11.0 to before 1.11.6 Fixed in 1.7.5, 1.11.6 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.7.5 Fixed in 1.7.5 Patch available GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2
  • github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.11.0 to before 1.11.6 Fixed in 1.11.6 Patch available GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:pterodactyl:wings:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.7.4; 1.11.0 to before 1.11.6Vulnerablepterodactyl
  • cpe:2.3:a:pterodactyl:wings:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.7.4; 1.11.0 to before 1.11.6 Vulnerable ·pterodactyl

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA wings (pterodactyl) Fixed in 1.7.5, 1.11.6
  • Fix · GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2 github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go) Fixed in 1.7.5 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2 github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go) Fixed in 1.11.6 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-32080
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p744-4q6p-hvc2

References

  • TI-2024-17963 Improper isolation of server file access in github.com/pterodactyl/wings CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2026-17479 Endless reprocessing/reupload of activity log data due to SQLite max parameters limit not being considered CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
  • TI-2023-10630 Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following allowing the deletion of files and directories on the host system in wings CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
  • TI-2024-22524 Arbitrary File Write/Read in Pterodactyl wings CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
  • TI-2023-10614 Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in github.com/pterodactyl/wings CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2025-42653 Uncontrolled resource consumption in pterodactyl panel CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
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Sources