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FTP JCL Execution

Disclosed
May 12, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Submit JCL to z/OS via FTP and SITE FILE=JES.
This exploit requires valid credentials on the target system.

Authors

Bigendian Smalls
mainframed a.k.a. soldier of fortran
S&Oxballs a.k.a. chiefascot

Platform

Mainframe

Architectures

cmd

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

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