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Overlayfs Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
06/16/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module attempts to exploit two different CVEs related to overlayfs. CVE-2015-1328: Ubuntu specific -> 3.13.0-24 (14.04 default) < 3.13.0-55 3.16.0-25 (14.10 default) < 3.16.0-41 3.19.0-18 (15.04 default) < 3.19.0-21 CVE-2015-8660: Ubuntu: 3.19.0-18 < 3.19.0-43 4.2.0-18 < 4.2.0-23 (14.04.1, 15.10) Fedora: < 4.2.8 (vulnerable, un-tested) Red Hat: < 3.10.0-327 (rhel 6, vulnerable, un-tested)

Author(s)

  • h00die <mike@shorebreaksecurity.com>
  • rebel

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64

Development

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

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