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FortiOS Path Traversal Credential Gatherer

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
Feb 27, 2021

Description

Fortinet FortiOS versions 5.4.6 to 5.4.12, 5.6.3 to 5.6.7 and 6.0.0 to
6.0.4 are vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability within the SSL VPN
web portal which allows unauthenticated attackers to download FortiOS system
files through specially crafted HTTP requests.

This module exploits this vulnerability to read the usernames and passwords
of users currently logged into the FortiOS SSL VPN, which are stored in
plaintext in the "/dev/cmdb/sslvpn_websession" file on the VPN server.

Authors

Meh Chang
Orange Tsai
lynx (Carlos Vieira)
mekhalleh (RAMELLA Sébastien)

References

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