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

Source

https://github.com/typicalsmc/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.

Readme

## Guide to use script that exploit the [Pterodactyl Path Traversal at locale.json](https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/security/advisories/GHSA-24wv-6c99-f843)

### Requirements

- Exposed Redis Server
- Panel URL

### Guide

1. Get access to the server configuration file, which has APP_KEY and Redis Database Password + IP
2. Use `forge_cookie` to generate a `pterodactyl_session` cookie
3. Use that cookie to access Pterodactyl API

### Note

- This script is for educational purposes only. Use it responsibly and ensure you have permission to test the target system.
- Logging in through the panel webpanel can not be done due to requirement of "remember_token" which is stored in the SQL Database.
- Only accessing the API is possible with the forged cookie.
- Tried on panel.ahihimc.net but they patched the redis port before im able to report joy :sad:

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