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Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 Default SSH Password Vulnerability

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Disclosed
2012-08-27
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a default misconfiguration flaw on Symantec Messaging Gateway.
The 'support' user has a known default password, which can be used to login to the
SSH service, and gain privileged access from remote.

Authors

Stefan Viehbock
Ben Williams
sinn3r sinn3r@metasploit.com

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