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Setuid Nmap Exploit

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Disclosed
Jul 19, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Nmap's man page mentions that "Nmap should never be installed with
special privileges (e.g. suid root) for security reasons.." and
specifically avoids making any of its binaries setuid during
installation. Nevertheless, administrators sometimes feel the need
to do insecure things. This module abuses a setuid nmap binary by
writing out a lua nse script containing a call to os.execute().

Note that modern interpreters will refuse to run scripts on the
command line when EUID != UID, so the cmd/unix/reverse_{perl,ruby}
payloads will most likely not work.

Author

egypt [email protected]

Platform

BSD,Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86

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