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Basilic 1.5.14 diff.php Arbitrary Command Execution

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Disclosed
Jun 28, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the
diff.php script. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary
commands as the www-data user account.

Authors

lcashdollar
sinn3r [email protected]
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Linux,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/webapp/basilic_diff_exec
    msf exploit(basilic_diff_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(basilic_diff_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(basilic_diff_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(basilic_diff_exec) > exploit
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