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HP Client Automation Command Injection

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Disclosed
Jan 2, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability on HP Client Automation, distributed
actually as Persistent Systems Client Automation. The vulnerability exists in the Notify
Daemon (radexecd.exe), which doesn't authenticate execution requests by default.

This module has been tested successfully on HP Client Automation 9.00 on Windows 2003 SP2
and CentOS 5.

Authors

Ben Turner
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Unix,Windows

Architectures

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