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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 9/21/18
Tomorrow brings the fall equinox, and that means (as we are almost contractually obligated to say at this point) winter is coming.
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 9/14/18
Your weekly run-down of the modules and improvements that landed in Metasploit Framework.
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 9/7/18
Ghost(script) in the shell
There has been a lot of buzz the last couple weeks about Google Project Zero's
Tavis Ormandy's new Ghostscript -dSAFER bypass, now complete with a Metasploit
module. With some valiant work by wvu [https://github.com/wvu-r7] and taviso
[https://github.com/taviso] himself, the latest way to break out of a PDF is now
at your fingertips. If you pulled an advanced copy from the PR
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10564], make sure to use
the refined vers
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 8/31/18
VPN to root
The Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10482] module by bcoles
[https://github.com/bcoles] exploits a privilege escalation attack in the
Network Manager VPNC plugin configuration data (CVE-2018-10900) to gain root
privileges. Network Manager VPNC versions prior to 1.2.6 are vulnerable and the
module has been successfully tested against 1.2.4-4 on Debian 9.0.0 (x64) and
1.1.93-1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 (x64). The
e
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 8/24/18
ssh_enumusers Gets An Update
wvu integrated the malformed packet technique
[https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15473] into the ssh_enumusers module
originally written by kenkeiras [https://github.com/kenkeiras]. This module
allows an attacker to guess the user accounts on an OpenSSH server on versions
up to 7.7, allowing the module to work on more versions than before.
GSoC Wraps Up
As Google Summer of Code finished up, Framework received an array of new and
exciting features. WangYihang
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrapup: 8/17/18
We had a great time meeting everyone at the various Metasploit events at hacker summer camp last week, including two popup capture the flag events with Metasploitable3, the Open Source Security Meetup and selling Metasploit 0xf Anniversary Tour.
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 8/10/18
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Even if you're a pro sleuth who can sniff out a vulnerability on even the most
hardened of networks, it's always nice to be have some added validation that
your attack is going to be successful. That's why it's always valuable to have a
solid "check" method available to verify that you're barking up the right tree.
This week bcoles [https://github.com/bcoles] upgraded the UAC check for Windows
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10419] to
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 8/3/18
Meterpreter on Axis
Everyone loves shells, but Meterpreter sessions are always better. Thanks to
William Vu, the axis_srv_parhand_rce
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10409] module is now
capable of giving you a Meterpreter session instead of a regular shell with
netcat.
DLL Injection for POP/MOV SS
Another awesome improvement is Brendan Watters' work on the POP/MOV SS exploit
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10387] against Windows
(CVE-2018-8897), also k
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 7/27/18
CMS Exploitation Made Simple
"CMS Made Simple" is an open-source Content Management System. Mustafa Hasen
discovered and reported [http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/bug/view/11741] that
versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.7 include a vulnerability in file uploads that permit an
authenticated attacker to gain execution of arbitrary PHP scripts. The
multi/http/cmsms_upload_rename_rce
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/http/cmsms_upload_rename_rce]
exploit module uses our PHP Meterpreter to gain full
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 7/20/18
Privilege Escalation
Linux BPF
CVE-2017-16995 [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16995] is a Linux
kernel vulnerability in the way that a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is verified.
Multiple sign extension bugs allows memory corruption by unprivileged users,
which could be used for a local privilege escalation attack by overwriting a
credential structure in memory to gain root access to a compromised host. The
bpf_sign_extension_priv_esc module
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framew
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 7/13/18
Committing to some shells in GitList
Shelby [https://github.com/space-r7] has been killing it with new exploit and
aux modules by the day. In this iteration, she's produced an exploit
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10262] for GitList 0.6.0
and likely older versions. The software is built on PHP and allows users to view
a Git repo on the web. Through an argument injection, a fake pager
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_pager] can be executed... that is really
our shell
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrapup 7/6/18
New Modules
Exploit modules (3 new)
* Nagios XI Chained Remote Code Execution
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/http/nagios_xi_chained_rce_2_electric_boogaloo]
by Benny Husted [https://github.com/BennyHusted], Cale Smith
[https://github.com/caleBot], and Jared Arave
[https://www.exploit-db.com/author/?a=9106], which exploits CVE-2018-8736.
Monitor this series of unfortunate events all the way to magical shells.
* Boxoft WAV to MP3 Converter v1.1 Buffer Overflow
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 6/29/18
Moar Power
OJ Reeves [https://github.com/OJ] added
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10206] two new PowerShell
transport functions to Metasploit payloads and made modifications to the
PowerShell transport binding functionality. The aptly-named Add-TcpTransport
function adds an active TCP transport to the current session and the
Add-WebTransport function adds an HTTP/S transport to the current session. These
functions are fully documented, allowing the user to leverage the Ge
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 6/22/18
Welcome to another installment of the week! This installment features a new
ETERNALBLUE module in everyone's favorite reptile-brain language, Python!
Sporting support for Windows 8 and 10, it has everything you need, including
immutable strings and enforced whitespace.
In other Windows 10 news, chervalierly [https://github.com/chervaliery] fixed an
annoying bug in rex-powershell that prevented PsExec from working on later
versions of Windows 10. Now, you can PsExec to your heart’s content. Go f
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: 6/15/18
New Privilege Escalation Exploit
The glibc 'realpath()' module
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10101] was added by bcoles
[https://github.com/bcoles]. It attempts to gain root privileges on Debian-based
Linux systems by exploiting a vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) version <=
2.26. This exploit uses halfdog's [https://github.com/halfdog] RationalLove
exploit to expose a buffer underflow error in glibc realpath() and create a SUID
root shell. The module includes offset