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Zenoss 3 showDaemonXMLConfig Command Execution

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Zenoss 3 showDaemonXMLConfig Command Execution

Disclosed
07/30/2012
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a command execution vulnerability in Zenoss 3.x which could be abused to allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code under the context of the 'zenoss' user. The show_daemon_xml_configs() function in the 'ZenossInfo.py' script calls Popen() with user controlled data from the 'daemon' parameter.

Author(s)

  • bcoles <bcoles@gmail.com>

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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

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