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

Source

https://github.com/63square/CVE-2025-49132

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.

Description

PoCs for CVE-2025-49132

Readme

# CVE-2025-49132 - 10.0 (Critical)

https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/security/advisories/GHSA-24wv-6c99-f843

Vulnerable versions: 1.9.0 .. 1.11.10

## OpSec Considerations

RCE exploitation is limited but can be detected through:

`cat /var/www/pterodactyl/storage/logs/laravel-2025-*-*.log | grep 'Illuminate\\\\Translation\\\\FileLoader->load()'`

If access logs are disabled as they are with default configuration (without SSL) credential dumping cannot be detected as easily, otherwise you can search for `locale=..` in the access logs

## Legal

This is entirely for educational purposes or for use in authorized challenges such as a CTF, it is illegal to attack a machine without prior permission.

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