sysPass FileBackupService Authenticated OS Command Injection via Backup Path
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.
Summary
sysPass's FileBackupService::doBackupFiles() in lib/SP/Services/Backup/FileBackupService.php around line 388 builds a tar shell command by string-concatenating the backup directory path $this->path directly into the command line ('tar czf ' . $backupFileApp . ' ' . BASE_PATH . ' --exclude \"' . $this->path . '\" 2>&1') and passes the result to PHP's exec() with no application of escapeshellarg() and no validation of the path against a safe character set. The $this->path value is read from the sysPass configuration, which is persisted in the database and writable through the admin settings API and the admin UI. An administrator (or an attacker who has obtained an admin API token or admin session) can therefore store a backup path containing shell metacharacters and trigger a backup operation to execute arbitrary OS commands as the web server process user (typically www-data or apache). Because sysPass is a password manager whose sole purpose is to hold credentials for other systems, code execution as the web-server user permits reading sysPass's master password and encryption key from memory or configuration files, decrypting every stored credential in the database, exporting the entire password vault, pivoting to internal systems using the disclosed credentials, and installing persistent backdoors on the password-manager host.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- 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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-63725
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cqxp-cq56-pxvr
References
More nuxsmin vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-46843 sysPass 3.2.11 Missing Object-Level Authorization via JSON-RPC API CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-46845 sysPass 3.2.11 Authenticated OS Command Injection via Backup Path CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-46842 sysPass 3.2.11 Insecure Direct Object Reference via AccountFileController CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-46844 sysPass 3.2.11 Missing Authorization via PublicLinkController Account Decryption CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-63725 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-63725 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-cqxp-cq56-pxvr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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