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PhpTax pfilez Parameter Exec Remote Code Injection

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Disclosed
Oct 8, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in PhpTax, an income tax report
generator. When generating a PDF, the icondrawpng() function in drawimage.php
does not properly handle the pfilez parameter, which will be used in an exec()
statement, and then results in arbitrary remote code execution under the context
of the web server. Please note: authentication is not required to exploit this
vulnerability.

Authors

Jean Pascal Pereira [email protected]
sinn3r [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

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