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Citrix ADC (NetScaler) Directory Traversal Scanner

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Disclosed
Dec 17, 2019
Created
Jan 14, 2020

Description

This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781) within Citrix ADC
(NetScaler). It requests the smb.conf file located in the /vpns/cfg directory by issuing the request
/vpn/../vpns/cfg/smb.conf. It then checks if the server is vulnerable by looking for the presence of
a "[global]" directive in smb.conf, which this file should always contain.

Authors

Mikhail Klyuchnikov
Erik Wynter
altonjx

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