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

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

Disclosed
12/19/2020
Created
04/15/2021

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.

Author(s)

  • Haboob Team
  • Erik Wynter

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

x86, x64, cmd

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/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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