Posts by William Webb

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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup: March 10, 2017

The last couple of weeks in the infosec world have appeared busier, and buzzier, than most others.  It seems almost futile to pry everyone away from the current drama--that being the bombshell revelation that intelligence agencies collect intelligence--long enough to have them read our dev blog.  Regardless, we've been busy ourselves.  And if you're the least bit like me, you could probably use a quick respite from the cacophony.  Keeping up with all the noise is enough to make anyone feel lik

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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup: Aug. 12, 2016

Las Vegas 2016 is in The Books This week's wrap-up actually covers two weeks thanks in large part to the yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas.  I myself elected not to attend, but I'm told everyone had a great time.  Many on the team are still recuperating, but I'd wager that they all enjoyed seeing you there as well.  Here's to everyone's speedy recovery. Centreon Web UserAlias Command Execution Our first new module this go-around exploits a remote command execution vulnerability in Centreon Web via

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A Short Approach: The Cisco ASA 5505 as a Stepping Stone Into Embedded Reverse Engineering

Back in February, Exodus Intelligence released their blog entry titled "Execute My Packet", which detailed their discovery and exploitation of CVE-2016-1287.  Since then, I've fielded numerous requests for modules and witnessed much discussion generated from it.  From this discussion, I've gathered that many researchers seem to consider the Cisco ASA as an unruly beast, difficult to approach, even harder to tame.  I feel that this is far from the truth, and this article is a response to such not