module

GoAhead Web Server LD_PRELOAD Arbitrary Module Load

Disclosed
Dec 18, 2017
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module triggers an arbitrary shared library load vulnerability
in GoAhead web server versions between 2.5 and that have the CGI module
enabled.

Authors

Daniel Hodson [email protected]
h00die
hdm [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64, armle, aarch64, mips, mipsle, mips64, mips64le, sparc, sparc64, zarch

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

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