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Watchguard XCS FixCorruptMail Local Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
06/29/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the Watchguard XCS 'FixCorruptMail' script called by root's crontab which can be exploited to run a command as root within 3 minutes.

Author(s)

  • Daniel Jensen <daniel.jensen@security-assessment.com>

Platform

BSD

Architectures

x64

Development

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

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