module

F5 BIG-IP SSH Private Key Exposure

Disclosed
2012-06-11
Created
2018-05-30

Description

F5 ships a public/private key pair on BIG-IP appliances that allows
passwordless authentication to any other BIG-IP box. Since the key is
easily retrievable, an attacker can use it to gain unauthorized remote
access as root.

Author

egypt egypt@metasploit.com

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey
msf exploit(f5_bigip_known_privkey) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(f5_bigip_known_privkey) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(f5_bigip_known_privkey) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(f5_bigip_known_privkey) > exploit

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