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Cisco 7937G Denial-of-Service Reboot Attack

Disclosed
06/02/2020
Created
08/21/2020

Description

This module exploits a bug in how the conference station handles executing a ping via its web interface. By repeatedly executing the ping function without clearing out the resulting output, a DoS is caused that will reset the device after a few minutes.

Author(s)

  • Cody Martin

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/dos/cisco/cisco_7937g_dos_reboot
msf auxiliary(cisco_7937g_dos_reboot) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(cisco_7937g_dos_reboot) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(cisco_7937g_dos_reboot) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(cisco_7937g_dos_reboot) > run

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