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Nagios XI Prior to 5.8.0 - Plugins Filename Authenticated Remote Code Exection

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Disclosed
Dec 19, 2020
Created
Apr 15, 2021

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2020-35578) in the `/admin/monitoringplugins.php`
page of Nagios XI versions prior to 5.8.0 when uploading plugins. Successful exploitation allows
an authenticated admin user to achieve remote code execution as the `apache` user by uploading
a malicious plugin.

Valid credentials for a Nagios XI admin user are required. This module has
been successfully tested against Nagios versions XI 5.3.0 and 5.7.5, both
running on CentOS 7.

Authors

Haboob Team
Erik Wynter

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

x86, x64, 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/nagios_xi_plugins_filename_authenticated_rce
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_plugins_filename_authenticated_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_plugins_filename_authenticated_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_plugins_filename_authenticated_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_plugins_filename_authenticated_rce) > exploit
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