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Atlassian Crowd XML Entity Expansion Remote File Access

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Atlassian Crowd XML Entity Expansion Remote File Access

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module simply attempts to read a remote file from the server using a vulnerability in the way Atlassian Crowd handles XML files. The vulnerability occurs while trying to expand external entities with the SYSTEM identifier. This module has been tested successfully on Linux and Windows installations of Crowd.

Author(s)

  • Will Caput
  • Trevor Hartman
  • Thaddeus Bogner
  • 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/scanner/http/atlassian_crowd_fileaccess
msf auxiliary(atlassian_crowd_fileaccess) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(atlassian_crowd_fileaccess) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(atlassian_crowd_fileaccess) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(atlassian_crowd_fileaccess) > run

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