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ktsuss suid Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Aug 13, 2011
Created
Sep 3, 2019

Description

This module attempts to gain root privileges by exploiting
a vulnerability in ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior.

The ktsuss executable is setuid root and does not drop
privileges prior to executing user specified commands,
resulting in command execution with root privileges.

This module has been tested successfully on:

ktsuss 1.3 on SparkyLinux 6 (2019.08) (LXQT) (x64); and
ktsuss 1.3 on SparkyLinux 5.8 (LXQT) (x64).

Authors

John Lightsey
bcoles bcoles@gmail.com

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64, armle, aarch64, ppc, mipsle, mipsbe

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