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GE Proficy Cimplicity WebView substitute.bcl Directory Traversal

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GE Proficy Cimplicity WebView substitute.bcl Directory Traversal

Disclosed
01/22/2013
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module abuses a directory traversal in GE Proficy Cimplicity, specifically on the gefebt.exe component used by the WebView, in order to retrieve arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges. This module has been tested successfully on GE Proficy Cimplicity 7.5.

Author(s)

  • Unknown
  • juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>

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/scada/ge_proficy_substitute_traversal
msf auxiliary(ge_proficy_substitute_traversal) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(ge_proficy_substitute_traversal) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(ge_proficy_substitute_traversal) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(ge_proficy_substitute_traversal) > run

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