module

D-Link DIR-859 Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

Disclosed	Created
Dec 24, 2019	Jan 21, 2020

Disclosed

Dec 24, 2019

Created

Jan 21, 2020

Description

D-Link DIR-859 Routers are vulnerable to OS command injection via the UPnP
interface. The vulnerability exists in /gena.cgi (function genacgi_main() in
/htdocs/cgibin), which is accessible without credentials.

Authors

Miguel Mendez Z., Miguel Mendez Z., @s1kr10s
Pablo Pollanco P.

Platform

Linux

Architectures

mipsbe

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/upnp/dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec
    msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > exploit

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