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Events
Take Command Summit: Take Breaches from Inevitable to Preventable on May 21
Registration is now open for Take Command, a day-long virtual summit in partnership with AWS. You’ll get new attack intelligence, insight into AI disruption, transparent MDR partnerships, and more.
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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/19/24
Welcome Ryan and the new CrushFTP module
It's not every week we add an awesome new exploit module to the Framework while
adding the original discoverer of the vulnerability to the Rapid7 team as well.
We're very excited to welcome Ryan Emmons to the Emergent Threat Response team,
which works alongside Metasploit here at Rapid7. Ryan discovered an Improperly
Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes
vulnerability in CrushFTP (CVE-2023-43177) versions prior to 10.5.1 whic
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/12/24
Account Takeover using Shadow Credentials
The new release of Metasploit Framework includes a Shadow Credentials module
added by smashery [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/19051]
used for reliably taking over an Active Directory user account or computer, and
letting future authentication to happen as that account. This can be chained
with other modules present in Metasploit Framework such as windows_secrets_dump.
Details
The module targets a ‘victim’ account that is part of a
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/05/2024
New ESC4 Templates for AD CS
Metasploit added capabilities
[https://docs.metasploit.com/docs/pentesting/active-directory/ad-certificates/attacking-ad-cs-esc-vulnerabilities.html]
for exploiting the ESC family of flaws in AD CS in Metasploit 6.3. The ESC4
technique in particular has been supported for some time now thanks to the
ad_cs_cert_templates module which enables users to read and write certificate
template objects. This facilitates the exploitation of ESC4 which is a
misconfiguration in
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/29/2024
Metasploit adds three new exploit modules including an RCE for SharePoint.
12 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Framework 6.4 Released
Today, Metasploit is pleased to announce the release of Metasploit Framework
6.4. It has been just over a year since the release of version 6.3
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/01/30/metasploit-framework-6-3-released/]
and the team has added many new features and improvements since then.
For news reporters, please reach out to press@rapid7.com.
Kerberos Improvements
Metasploit 6.3 included initial support for Kerberos authentication within
Metasploit and was one of the larger features i
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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/22/2024
New module content (1)
OpenNMS Horizon Authenticated RCE
Author: Erik Wynter
Type: Exploit
Pull request: #18618 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/18618]
contributed by ErikWynter [https://github.com/ErikWynter]
Path: linux/http/opennms_horizon_authenticated_rce
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-0872
[https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2023-0872?referrer=blog]
Description: This module exploits built-in functionality in OpenNMS Horizon in
order to execute arbitrary commands as t
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/15/2024
New module content (3)
GitLab Password Reset Account Takeover
Authors: asterion04 and h00die
Type: Auxiliary
Pull request: #18716 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/18716]
contributed by h00die [https://github.com/h00die]
Path: admin/http/gitlab_password_reset_account_takeover
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-7028
[https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2023-7028?referrer=blog]
Description: This adds an exploit module that leverages an account-take-over
vulnerability to take contr
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/08/2024
New module content (2)
GitLab Tags RSS feed email disclosure
Authors: erruquill and n00bhaxor
Type: Auxiliary
Pull request: #18821 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/18821]
contributed by n00bhaxor [https://github.com/n00bhaxor]
Path: gather/gitlab_tags_rss_feed_email_disclosure
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-5612
[https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2023-5612?referrer=blog]
Description: This adds an auxiliary module that leverages an information
disclosure vulnerability (CVE
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/01/2024
Metasploit adds an RCE exploit for ConnectWise ScreenConnect and new documentation for exploiting ESC13.
4 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/23/2024
LDAP Capture module
Metasploit now has an LDAP capture module thanks to the work of
JustAnda7 [https://github.com/JustAnda7]. This work was completed as part of the
Google Summer of Code program.
When the module runs it will by default require privileges to listen on port
389. The module implements a default implementation for BindRequest,
SearchRequest, UnbindRequest, and will capture both plaintext credentials and
NTLM hashes which can be brute-forced offline. Upon receiving a successful Bin
5 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/16/2024
New Fetch Payload
It has been almost a year since Metasploit released the new fetch payloads
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/05/25/fetch-payloads-a-shorter-path-from-command-injection-to-metasploit-session/]
and since then, 43 of the 79 exploit modules have had support for fetch
payloads. The original payloads supported transferring the second stage over
HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. This week, Metasploit has expanded that protocol support to
include SMB, allowing payloads to be run using rundll3
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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/09/2024
Go go gadget Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Module
This Metasploit release contains a module for one of 2024's hottest
vulnerabilities to date: CVE-2024-0204. The path traversal vulnerability in
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT allows for unauthenticated attackers to access the
InitialAccountSetup.xhtml endpoint which is used during the products initial
setup to create the first administrator user. After setup has completed, this
endpoint is supposed to be no longer available. Attackers can use this
vulnerability
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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/02/2024
Shared RubySMB Service Improvements
This week’s updates include improvements to
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/18680] Metasploit
Framework’s SMB server implementation: the SMB server can now be reused across
various SMB modules, which are now able to register their own unique shares and
files. SMB modules can also now be executed concurrently. Currently, there are
15 SMB modules in Metasploit Framework that utilize this feature.
New module content (2)
Mirth Connect Deseria
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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/26/24
Direct Syscalls Support for Windows Meterpreter
Direct system calls are a well-known technique that is often used to bypass
EDR/AV detection. This technique is particularly useful when dynamic analysis is
performed, where the security software monitors every process on the system to
detect any suspicious activity. One common way to do so is to add user-land
hooks on Win32 API calls, especially those commonly used by malware. Direct
syscalls are a way to run system calls directly and enter kernel