PHP-CGI Argument Injection (CVE-2024-4577) for 2026-10-01

Oct 01, 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

United States: 4Indonesia: 2The Netherlands: 2Ethiopia: 1Belgium: 1Singapore: 1Morocco: 1
United States433.3%
Indonesia216.7%
The Netherlands216.7%
Ethiopia18.3%
Belgium18.3%
Singapore18.3%
Morocco18.3%

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