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Ruby on Rails JSON Processor YAML Deserialization Scanner

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module attempts to identify Ruby on Rails instances vulnerable to
an arbitrary object instantiation flaw in the JSON request processor.

Authors

jjarmoc
hdm [email protected]

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