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DD-WRT HTTP Daemon Arbitrary Command Execution

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Disclosed
Jul 20, 2009
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the
HTTP management server of wireless gateways running DD-WRT. This flaw
allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as
the root user account.

Authors

gat3way
hdm [email protected]

Platform

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/linux/http/ddwrt_cgibin_exec
    msf exploit(ddwrt_cgibin_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ddwrt_cgibin_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ddwrt_cgibin_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ddwrt_cgibin_exec) > exploit
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