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SimpleHelp Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2024-57727

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Disclosed
Jan 12, 2025
Created
Feb 25, 2025

Description

There exists a path traversal vulnerability in the /toolbox-resource endpoint that enables unauthenticated
remote attackers to download arbitrary files from the SimpleHelp server via crafted HTTP requests

Authors

horizon3ai
imjdl
jheysel-r7

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