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F5 BIG-IP SSH Private Key Exposure

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Disclosed
Jun 11, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

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 [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/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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