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Monitorr unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Disclosed
11/16/2020
Created
03/22/2023

Description

This module exploits an arbitrary file upload vulnerability and achieving an RCE in the Monitorr application. Using a specially crafted request, custom PHP code can be uploaded and injected through endpoint upload.php because of missing input validation. Any user privileges can exploit this vulnerability and it results in access to the underlying operating system with the same privileges under which the web services run (typically user www-data). Monitorr 1.7.6m, 1.7.7d and below are affected.

Author(s)

  • h00die-gr3y <h00die.gr3y@gmail.com>
  • Lyhins Lab

Platform

Linux,PHP,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd, php, x64, x86

Development

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/monitorr_webshell_rce_cve_2020_28871
msf exploit(monitorr_webshell_rce_cve_2020_28871) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(monitorr_webshell_rce_cve_2020_28871) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(monitorr_webshell_rce_cve_2020_28871) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(monitorr_webshell_rce_cve_2020_28871) > exploit

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