module

Jenkins XStream Groovy classpath Deserialization Vulnerability

Disclosed
Feb 24, 2016
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module exploits CVE-2016-0792 a vulnerability in Jenkins versions older than 1.650 and Jenkins LTS versions
older than 1.642.2 which is caused by unsafe deserialization in XStream with Groovy in the classpath,
which allows remote arbitrary code execution. The issue affects default installations. Authentication
is not required to exploit the vulnerability.

Authors

Arshan Dabirsiaghi
Matt Byrne [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Python,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd, python, x86, x64

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

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