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Java Applet ProviderSkeleton Insecure Invoke Method

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Disclosed
Jun 18, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses the insecure invoke() method of the ProviderSkeleton class that
allows to call arbitrary static methods with user supplied arguments. The vulnerability
affects Java version 7u21 and earlier.

Authors

Adam Gowdiak
Matthias Kaiser

Platform

Java,Linux,OSX,Windows

Architectures

java, x86

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/multi/browser/java_jre17_provider_skeleton
    msf exploit(java_jre17_provider_skeleton) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(java_jre17_provider_skeleton) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(java_jre17_provider_skeleton) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(java_jre17_provider_skeleton) > exploit
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