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Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Disclosed
Mar 18, 2022
Created
Mar 17, 2023

Description

Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive
user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes.
This occurs because files generated with ' by the PHP interpreter.

Authors

Jacob Ebben
Dennis Pfleger

Platform

PHP

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

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