PHP-CGI Argument Injection (CVE-2024-4577) for 2026-08-02

Aug 02, 2026 Exploitation

Last Updated: 00:00 UTC

CVE-2024-4577 lets an attacker pass command-line options to PHP-CGI on Windows by using a soft hyphen (%AD) that Windows best-fit mapping turns into a dash. Requests set allow_url_include and auto_prepend_file=php://input so the POST body runs as PHP. The RedTail cryptomining botnet (User-Agent libredtail-http) sprays this against every host it finds.

CVE References

CVE-2024-4577

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic: Initial Access (TA0001)
Technique: T1190 — Exploit Public-Facing Application

Observed URIs

Attackers by Country

China: 2Indonesia: 1Singapore: 1United States: 1Germany: 1
China233.3%
Indonesia116.7%
Singapore116.7%
United States116.7%
Germany116.7%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

  • 110.35.80.116 : AS17727 PT. NAP Info Lintas Nusa : Tangerang

  • 120.48.22.219 : AS38365 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd. : Beijing

  • 157.245.157.77 : AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC : Singapore

  • 43.110.38.5 : AS45102 Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. : United States

  • 47.95.234.23 : AS37963 Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd. : Beijing

  • 5.83.129.180 : AS214639 Takehost Ou : Germany

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