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Dell KACE K1000 File Upload

Disclosed
Mar 7, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a file upload vulnerability in Kace K1000
versions 5.0 to 5.3, 5.4 prior to 5.4.76849 and 5.5 prior to 5.5.90547
which allows unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary commands
under the context of the 'www' user.

This module also abuses the 'KSudoClient::RunCommandWait' function
to gain root privileges.

This module has been tested successfully with Dell KACE K1000
version 5.3.

Authors

Bradley Austin (steponequit)
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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/unix/http/dell_kace_k1000_upload
msf exploit(dell_kace_k1000_upload) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(dell_kace_k1000_upload) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(dell_kace_k1000_upload) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(dell_kace_k1000_upload) > exploit

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