Critical
Security advisory
Icinga Web 2 before 2.6.2 allows injection of PHP ini-file directives via vectors involving environment variables as the channel to send information to the attacker, such as a name=${PATH}_${APACHE_RUN_DIR}_${APACHE_RUN_USER} parameter to /icingaweb2/navigation/add or /icingaweb2/dashboard/new-dashlet.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18249
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Icinga Web 2 before 2.6.2 allows injection of PHP ini-file directives via vectors involving environment variables as the channel to send information to the attacker, such as a name=${PATH}_${APACHE_RUN_DIR}_${APACHE_RUN_USER} parameter to /icingaweb2/navigation/add or /icingaweb2/dashboard/new-dashlet.
osv:CVE-2018-18249
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"summary": "Icinga Web 2 before 2.6.2 allows injection of PHP ini-file directives via vectors involving environment variables as the channel to send information to the attacker, such as a name=${PATH}_${APACHE_RUN_DIR}_${APACHE_RUN_USER} parameter to /icingaweb2/navigation/add or /icingaweb2/dashboard/new-dashlet.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.103994576Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://herolab.usd.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/12/usd20180030.txt"
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"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 440179,
"published_at": "2018-12-17T15:29:00.53+00:00"
}