module

VMware vCenter Server Analytics (CEIP) Service File Upload

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Disclosed
2021-09-21
Created
2021-10-07

Description

This module exploits a file upload in VMware vCenter Server's
analytics/telemetry (CEIP) service to write a system crontab and
execute shell commands as the root user.

Note that CEIP must be enabled for the target to be exploitable by
this module. CEIP is enabled by default.

Authors

George Noseevich
Sergey Gerasimov
VMware
Derek Abdine
wvu wvu@metasploit.com

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