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Pulse Secure VPN gzip RCE

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Disclosed
Oct 26, 2020
Created
Dec 18, 2020

Description

The Pulse Connect Secure appliance before 9.1R9 suffers from an uncontrolled gzip extraction vulnerability
which allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files, resulting in Remote Code Execution as root.
Admin credentials are required for successful exploitation.
Of note, MANY binaries are not in `$PATH`, but are located in `/home/bin/`.

Authors

h00die
Spencer McIntyre
Richard Warren [email protected]
David Cash [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

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