module

invscout RPM Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Apr 24, 2023
Created
May 18, 2023

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in IBM AIX
invscout set-uid root utility present in AIX 7.2 and earlier.

The undocumented -rpm argument can be used to install an RPM file;
and the undocumented -o argument passes arguments to the rpm utility
without validation, leading to command injection with effective-uid
root privileges.

This module has been tested successfully on AIX 7.2.

Authors

Tim Brown
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

AIX,Unix

Architectures

cmd

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 exploit/aix/local/invscout_rpm_priv_esc
    msf exploit(invscout_rpm_priv_esc) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(invscout_rpm_priv_esc) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(invscout_rpm_priv_esc) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(invscout_rpm_priv_esc) > exploit
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