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Exim "perl_startup" Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Mar 10, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a Perl injection vulnerability in Exim
given the presence of the "perl_startup" configuration parameter.

Authors

Dawid Golunski
wvu [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

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/unix/local/exim_perl_startup
    msf exploit(exim_perl_startup) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(exim_perl_startup) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(exim_perl_startup) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(exim_perl_startup) > exploit
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