CVE-2025-49132 PoC — Pterodactyl Panel Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary Remote Code Execution

Source

https://github.com/0xtensho/CVE-2025-49132-poc

Associated Vulnerability

Title:Pterodactyl Panel Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-49132)
Description:Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to version 1.11.11, using the /locales/locale.json with the locale and namespace query parameters, a malicious actor is able to execute arbitrary code without being authenticated. With the ability to execute arbitrary code it could be used to gain access to the Panel's server, read credentials from the Panel's config, extract sensitive information from the database, access files of servers managed by the panel, etc. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.11. There are no software workarounds for this vulnerability, but use of an external Web Application Firewall (WAF) could help mitigate this attack.

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# CVE-2025-49132-poc

I made this poc for [CVE-2025-49132](https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/security/advisories/GHSA-24wv-6c99-f843), as it was interesting to make and it's part of a challenge over at my cyber platform [deepreview](https://deepreview.app) !

This is all explained in a blog post I made and in the challenge over at the website !

This CVE takes advantage of a file inclusion vulnerability that can be escalated to a Remote Code Execution with the `pearcmd.php` script.

Usage :
```shell
python3 poc.py 127.0.0.1 'touch /tmp/omgitworks'
```

If it works correctly you should see an internal server error in the response.

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