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Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Arbitrary Command Execution

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Disclosed
Feb 21, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

The Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) is installed to allow a central
Nagios server to actively poll information from the hosts it monitors. NRPE
has a configuration option dont_blame_nrpe which enables command-line arguments
to be provided remote plugins. When this option is enabled, even when NRPE makes
an effort to sanitize arguments to prevent command execution, it is possible to
execute arbitrary commands.

Authors

Rudolph Pereir
jwpari [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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