CVE-2022-24637
Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
CVE-2022-24637- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
CVE-2022-24637- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-1502 No score
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
EUVD-2022-1502- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w
Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
GHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w
Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
GHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV No score
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.
- Record
CVE-2022-24637- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
open-web-analytics/open-web-analyticsPackagist |
before 1.7.4 | 1.7.4 |
open-web-analytics/open-web-analyticsPackagist |
before 1.7.4, plus listed versions 1.6.61.6.71.6.81.6.91.7.01.7.11.7.21.7.3 |
1.7.4 |
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB | Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution | 2022-11-11 |
| Metasploit | Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) | 2022-03-18 |
| Nuclei | Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution | |
| PoC in GitHub | 0xM4hm0ud/CVE-2022-24637 | 2023-03-26 |
| PoC in GitHub | 0xRyuk/CVE-2022-24637 | 2023-08-22 |
| PoC in GitHub | Lay0us/CVE-2022-24637 | 2022-08-30 |
| PoC in GitHub | Pflegusch/CVE-2022-24637 | 2023-03-09 |
| PoC in GitHub | PrinceAikinsBaidoo/CVE-2022-24637 | 2026-09-10 |
| PoC in GitHub | hupe1980/CVE-2022-24637 | 2022-10-08 |
| PoC in GitHub | icebreack/CVE-2022-24637 | 2022-11-15 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, Exploit-DB, GitHub Advisories, Metasploit, Nuclei, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-24637 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Openwebanalytics Open Web Analytics, published March 18, 2022. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.1%, the 99th percentile. Fixed in open-web-analytics/open-web-analytics 1.7.4.
References
devel0pment.de?p=2494
github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/releases/tag/1.7.4
packetstormsecurity.com/files/169811/Open-Web-Analytics-1.7.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24637