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Mercurial Custom hg-ssh Wrapper Remote Code Exec

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Disclosed
Apr 18, 2017
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module takes advantage of custom hg-ssh wrapper implementations that don't
adequately validate parameters passed to the hg binary, allowing users to trigger a
Python Debugger session, which allows arbitrary Python code execution.

Author

claudijd

Platform

Python

Architectures

python

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