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Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Cookie RCE

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Disclosed
Nov 20, 2009
Created
Mar 19, 2019

Description

The erlang port mapper daemon is used to coordinate distributed erlang instances.
Should an attacker get the authentication cookie RCE is trivial. Usually, this
cookie is named ".erlang.cookie" and varies on location.

Authors

Daniel Mende
Milton Valencia (wetw0rk)

Platform

Linux,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd, x64, x86

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