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Postfixadmin Protected Alias Deletion Vulnerability

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Postfixadmin Protected Alias Deletion Vulnerability

Disclosed
02/03/2017
Created
06/14/2018

Description

Postfixadmin installations between 2.91 and 3.0.1 do not check if an admin is allowed to delete protected aliases. This vulnerability can be used to redirect protected aliases to an other mail address. Eg. rewrite the postmaster@domain alias

Author(s)

  • Jan-Frederik Rieckers

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

Development

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 auxiliary/admin/http/pfadmin_set_protected_alias
msf auxiliary(pfadmin_set_protected_alias) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(pfadmin_set_protected_alias) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(pfadmin_set_protected_alias) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(pfadmin_set_protected_alias) > run

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