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pfSense authenticated group member RCE

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pfSense authenticated group member RCE

Disclosed
11/06/2017
Created
06/14/2018

Description

pfSense, a free BSD based open source firewall distribution, version <= 2.3.1_1 contains a remote command execution vulnerability post authentication in the system_groupmanager.php page. Verified against 2.2.6 and 2.3.

Author(s)

  • s4squatch
  • h00die

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

Development

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

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