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Sophos UTM WebAdmin SID Command Injection

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Disclosed
Sep 18, 2020
Created
Oct 28, 2021

Description

This module exploits an SID-based command injection in Sophos UTM's
WebAdmin interface to execute shell commands as the root user.

Authors

Justin Kennedy
wvu [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/sophos_utm_webadmin_sid_cmd_injection
    msf exploit(sophos_utm_webadmin_sid_cmd_injection) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(sophos_utm_webadmin_sid_cmd_injection) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(sophos_utm_webadmin_sid_cmd_injection) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(sophos_utm_webadmin_sid_cmd_injection) > exploit
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