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vCenter Sudo Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
2024-06-18
Created
2024-12-05

Description

VMware vCenter Server contains multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities
due to misconfiguration of sudo. An authenticated local user
with non-administrative privileges may exploit these issues
to elevate privileges to root on vCenter Server Appliance.

Tested against VMware vCenter Server Appliance 8.0.0.10000 20519528

Authors

h00die
Matei "Mal" Badanoiu

Platform

Linux

Architectures

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