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Template Injection Vulnerability in Sawtooth Software's Lighthouse Studio (CVE-2025-34300)

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Disclosed
Jul 16, 2025
Created
Sep 9, 2025

Description

This module exploits a template injection vulnerability in the
Sawtooth Software Lighthouse Studio's `ciwweb.pl` web application.
The application fails to properly sanitize user input within survey templates,
allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject and execute arbitrary Perl commands
on the target system.

This vulnerability affects Lighthouse Studio versions prior to 9.16.14.
Successful exploitation may result in remote code execution under the privileges
of the web server, potentially exposing sensitive data or disrupting survey operations.

An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands in the context of the user running the web server.

Authors

Maksim Rogov
Adam Kues

Platform

Linux,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/lighthouse_studio_unauth_rce_cve_2025_34300
    msf exploit(lighthouse_studio_unauth_rce_cve_2025_34300) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(lighthouse_studio_unauth_rce_cve_2025_34300) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(lighthouse_studio_unauth_rce_cve_2025_34300) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(lighthouse_studio_unauth_rce_cve_2025_34300) > exploit
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