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JSON Swagger CodeGen Parameter Injector

Disclosed
Jun 23, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module generates an Open API Specification 2.0 (Swagger) compliant
json document that includes payload insertion points in parameters.

In order for the payload to be executed, an attacker must convince
someone to generate code from a specially modified swagger.json file
within a vulnerable swagger-codgen appliance/container/api/service,
and then to execute that generated code (or include it into software
which will later be executed by another victim). By doing so, an
attacker can execute arbitrary code as the victim user. The same
vulnerability exists in the YAML format.

Author

ethersnowman [email protected]

Platform

NodeJS,PHP,Ruby,Unix

Architectures

nodejs, php, java, ruby

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

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