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GitLab Unauthenticated Remote ExifTool Command Injection

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Disclosed
Apr 14, 2021
Created
Nov 4, 2021

Description

This module exploits an unauthenticated file upload and command
injection vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and
Enterprise Edition (EE). The patched versions are 13.10.3, 13.9.6,
and 13.8.8.

Exploitation will result in command execution as the git user.

Authors

William Bowling
jbaines-r7

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

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