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Maltrail Unauthenticated Command Injection

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Disclosed
2023-07-31
Created
2023-08-17

Description

Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly
available blacklists containing malicious and/or generally suspicious trails.
The Maltrail versions The `subprocess.check_output` function in `mailtrail/core/http.py` contains
a command injection vulnerability in the `params.get("username")` parameter.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by injecting arbitrary OS commands
into the username parameter. The injected commands will be executed with the
privileges of the running process. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely
without authentication.

Successfully tested against Maltrail versions 0.52 and 0.53.

Authors

Ege BALCI egebalci@pm.me
Chris Wild

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

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