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Exim and Dovecot Insecure Configuration Command Injection

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Disclosed
May 3, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability against Dovecot with
Exim using the "use_shell" option. It uses the sender's address to inject arbitrary
commands, since this is one of the user-controlled variables. It has been
successfully tested on Debian Squeeze using the default Exim4 with the dovecot-common
packages.

Authors

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juan vazquez [email protected]

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/smtp/exim4_dovecot_exec
    msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > exploit
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