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Saltstack Minion Payload Deployer

Disclosed
Mar 19, 2011
Created
Jan 23, 2024

Description

This exploit module uses saltstack salt to deploy a payload and run it
on all targets which have been selected (default all).
Currently only works against nix targets.

Authors

h00die
c2Vlcgo

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

x86, x64

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

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