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RedHat Piranha Virtual Server Package passwd.php3 Arbitrary Command Execution

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Disclosed
Apr 4, 2000
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses two flaws - a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the
HTTP management server of RedHat 6.2 systems running the Piranha
LVS cluster service and GUI (rpm packages: piranha and piranha-gui).
The vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary
commands as the Apache user account (nobody) within the
/piranha/secure/passwd.php3 script. The package installs with a default
user and password of piranha:q which was exploited in the wild.

Author

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