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Memcached Stats Amplification Scanner

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Disclosed
Feb 27, 2018
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module can be used to discover Memcached servers which expose the
unrestricted UDP port 11211. A basic "stats" request is executed to check
if an amplification attack is possible against a third party.

Authors

Marek Majkowski
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Jon Hart [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/memcached/memcached_amp
    msf auxiliary(memcached_amp) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(memcached_amp) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(memcached_amp) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(memcached_amp) > run
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