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Linksys E-Series TheMoon Remote Command Injection

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Linksys E-Series TheMoon Remote Command Injection

Disclosed
02/13/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

Some Linksys E-Series Routers are vulnerable to an unauthenticated OS command injection. This vulnerability was used from the so-called "TheMoon" worm. There are many Linksys systems that are potentially vulnerable, including E4200, E3200, E3000, E2500, E2100L, E2000, E1550, E1500, E1200, E1000, and E900. This module was tested successfully against an E1500 v1.0.5.

Author(s)

  • Johannes Ullrich
  • Rew
  • infodox
  • Michael Messner <devnull@s3cur1ty.de>
  • juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>

Platform

Linux,Unix

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/linux/http/linksys_themoon_exec
msf exploit(linksys_themoon_exec) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(linksys_themoon_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(linksys_themoon_exec) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(linksys_themoon_exec) > exploit

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