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Symantec Web Gateway 5 restore.php Post Authentication Command Injection

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Disclosed
2014-12-16
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability found in Symantec Web
Gateway's setting restoration feature. The filename portion can be used to inject
system commands into a syscall function, and gain control under the context of
HTTP service.

For Symantec Web Gateway 5.1.1, you can exploit this vulnerability by any kind of user.
However, for version 5.2.1, you must be an administrator.

Authors

Egidio Romano
sinn3r sinn3r@metasploit.com

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