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AlienVault Authenticated SQL Injection Arbitrary File Read

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AlienVault Authenticated SQL Injection Arbitrary File Read

Disclosed
03/30/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

AlienVault 4.5.0 is susceptible to an authenticated SQL injection attack via a PNG generation PHP file. This module exploits this to read an arbitrary file from the file system. Any authenticated user is able to exploit it, as administrator privileges aren't required.

Author(s)

  • Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile@gmail.com>

Platform

Linux

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/gather/alienvault_iso27001_sqli
msf auxiliary(alienvault_iso27001_sqli) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(alienvault_iso27001_sqli) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(alienvault_iso27001_sqli) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(alienvault_iso27001_sqli) > run

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