Pulse Secure VPN gzip RCE
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/`.
Author(s)
- h00die
- Spencer McIntyre
- Richard Warren <richard.warren@nccgroup.com>
- David Cash <david.cash@nccgroup.com>
Platform
Linux,Unix
Architectures
cmd, x86, x64
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/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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