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PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection

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Disclosed
Dec 26, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

PHPMailer versions up to and including 5.2.19 are affected by a
vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with
partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection
of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This module
writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing
it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write
access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation
can take a few minutes.

Authors

Dawid Golunski
Spencer McIntyre

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

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