Improper Input ValidationWeakness · CWE-20

CVE-2026-49827

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-13
No fix yet
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click 6 days old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
WebErpMesv2 is a Resource Management and Manufacturing execution system Web for industry. Versions 1.19 and prior allow any self-registered user to upload arbitrary PHP files through the HR Expense scan_file parameter, leading to Remote Code Execution. Combined with open registration (no invite required) and broken role middleware (CheckUserRole silently swallows RouteNotFoundException), this chain is effectively unauthenticated RCE against any default installation. The issue is patched in commit 5c54862fa044b363fd2be03d586750e81afd6818.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-20

The application accepts input without confirming it is well-formed or within expected bounds, so malformed data can push the program into states its author never anticipated. Attackers probe these gaps to trigger crashes, bypass logic, or feed tainted values into more dangerous operations downstream. Remediating it well means validating and normalising every input at the boundary against a strict allow-list — not merely filtering known-bad values.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Recommended fix Moderate confidence

Any version newer than 1.19 that incorporates commit 5c54862fa044b363fd2be03d586750e81afd6818, or apply the specific commit patch

  1. Identify the current WebErpMesv2 version in use (likely 1.19 or earlier)
  2. Apply the fix from commit 5c54862fa044b363fd2be03d586750e81afd6818 to the codebase
  3. Alternatively, check for any released version newer than 1.19 that includes this patch
  4. After applying the patch, verify that file upload restrictions are enforced on the HR Expense scan_file parameter
  5. Confirm that the CheckUserRole middleware properly handles RouteNotFoundException rather than silently swallowing it
  6. Test that open registration is disabled or invite-only to break the unauthenticated RCE chain
  7. Verify that arbitrary PHP files can no longer be uploaded and executed
Caveat Unknown - recommend testing in staging environment

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