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HP-UX LPD Command Execution

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Disclosed
Aug 28, 2002
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This exploit abuses an unpublished vulnerability in the
HP-UX LPD service. This flaw allows an unauthenticated
attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges
of the root user. The LPD service is only exploitable when
the address of the attacking system can be resolved by the
target. This vulnerability was silently patched with the
buffer overflow flaws addressed in HP Security Bulletin
HPSBUX0208-213.

Author

hdm [email protected]

Platform

HPUX,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/hpux/lpd/cleanup_exec
    msf exploit(cleanup_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(cleanup_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(cleanup_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(cleanup_exec) > exploit
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