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VMware vCenter Server Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin RCE

Disclosed
05/25/2021
Created
07/13/2021

Description

This module exploits Java unsafe reflection and SSRF in the VMware vCenter Server Virtual SAN Health Check plugin's ProxygenController class to execute code as the vsphere-ui user. See the vendor advisory for affected and patched versions. Tested against VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3m (Linux appliance).

Author(s)

  • Ricter Z
  • wvu <wvu@metasploit.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/vmware_vcenter_vsan_health_rce
msf exploit(vmware_vcenter_vsan_health_rce) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(vmware_vcenter_vsan_health_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(vmware_vcenter_vsan_health_rce) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(vmware_vcenter_vsan_health_rce) > exploit

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