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Microsoft OMI Management Interface Authentication Bypass

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Disclosed
Sep 14, 2021
Created
Oct 28, 2021

Description

By removing the authentication header, an attacker can issue an HTTP request to the OMI management endpoint
that will cause it to execute an operating system command as the root user. This vulnerability was patched in
OMI version 1.6.8-1 (released September 8th 2021).

Authors

Nir Ohfeld
Shir Tamari
Spencer McIntyre
wvu [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, 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/misc/cve_2021_38647_omigod
    msf exploit(cve_2021_38647_omigod) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(cve_2021_38647_omigod) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(cve_2021_38647_omigod) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(cve_2021_38647_omigod) > exploit
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