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Selenium arbitrary file read

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Disclosed
Oct 1, 2020
Created
Jan 8, 2025

Description

If there is an open selenium web driver, a remote attacker can send requests to the victims browser.
In certain cases this can be used to access to the remote file system.

Authors

Jon Stratton
Takahiro Yokoyama

Platform

Cisco,Linux,OSX,Unix,Windows

Architectures

x86, x86_64, x64, mips, mipsle, mipsbe, mips64, mips64le, ppc, ppce500v2, ppc64, ppc64le, cbea, cbea64, sparc, sparc64, armle, armbe, aarch64, cmd, php, tty, java, ruby, dalvik, python, nodejs, firefox, zarch, r, riscv32be, riscv32le, riscv64be, riscv64le, loongarch64

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