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Nagios XI 5.5.0-5.7.3 - Snmptrap Authenticated Remote Code Exection

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Disclosed
Oct 20, 2020
Created
Apr 21, 2021

Description

This module exploits an OS command injection vulnerability in
includes/components/nxti/index.php that enables an authenticated user
with admin privileges to achieve remote code execution as the `apache`
user. The module uploads a simple PHP shell via includes/components/nxti/index.php
to includes/components/autodiscovery/jobs/ and then
executes the payload as the `apache` user via an HTTP GET request to
includes/components/autodiscovery/jobs/?=

Valid credentials for a Nagios XI admin user are required. This module has
been successfully tested against Nagios XI 5.7.3 running on CentOS 7.

Authors

Chris Lyne
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_snmptrap_authenticated_rce
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_snmptrap_authenticated_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_snmptrap_authenticated_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_snmptrap_authenticated_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(nagios_xi_snmptrap_authenticated_rce) > exploit
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