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Unitrends UEB bpserverd authentication bypass RCE

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Disclosed
Aug 8, 2017
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

It was discovered that the Unitrends bpserverd proprietary protocol, as exposed via xinetd,
has an issue in which its authentication can be bypassed. A remote attacker could use this
issue to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege on the target system.

Authors

Jared Arave
Cale Smith
Benny Husted

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86

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/ueb9_bpserverd
    msf exploit(ueb9_bpserverd) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ueb9_bpserverd) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ueb9_bpserverd) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ueb9_bpserverd) > exploit
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