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VMware vCenter Server Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin RCE

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Disclosed
May 25, 2021
Created
Jul 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).

Authors

Ricter Z
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/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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