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Pallete Projects Werkzeug Debugger Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jun 28, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will exploit the Werkzeug debug console to put down a Python shell. Werkzeug is included with Flask, but not enabled by default. It is also included in other projects, for example the RunServerPlus extension for Django. It may also be used alone.

The documentation states the following: "The debugger must never be used on production machines. We cannot stress this enough. Do not enable the debugger in production." Of course this doesn't prevent developers from mistakenly enabling it in production!

Tested against the following Werkzeug versions:
- 3.0.3 on Debian 12, Windows 11 and macOS 14.6
- 1.1.4 on Debian 12
- 1.0.1 on Debian 12
- 0.11.5 on Debian 12
- 0.10 on Debian 12

Authors

h00die [email protected]
Graeme Robinson metasploit

Platform

Python

Architectures

python

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