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Quantum DXi V1000 SSH Private Key Exposure

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Disclosed
Mar 17, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Quantum ships a public/private key pair on DXi V1000 2.2.1 appliances that
allows passwordless authentication to any other DXi box. Since the key is
easily retrievable, an attacker can use it to gain unauthorized remote
access as root.

Author

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