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Generic HTTP Command Execution

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Disclosed
Feb 26, 2026
Created
Mar 27, 2026

Description

This module interacts with existing command execution functionality on a target system,
where user-supplied input is directly passed to system execution functions via a HTTP request.
This could be from an existing vulnerability, or uploaded webshells such as:







It is likely that HTTP evasion options will break this exploit.

Authors

egypt [email protected]
g0tmi1k

Platform

Linux,OSX,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd

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