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Pi-Hole DHCP MAC OS Command Execution

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Disclosed
Mar 28, 2020
Created
May 29, 2020

Description

This exploits a command execution in Pi-Hole with a MAC address which includes an RCE. Exploitation requires /opt/pihole to be first
in the $PATH due to exploitation constraints. DHCP server is not required to be running.

Authors

h00die
François Renaud-Philippon [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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