module

CakePHP Cache Corruption Code Execution

Disclosed
Nov 15, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

CakePHP is a popular PHP framework for building web applications. The
Security component of CakePHP versions 1.3.5 and earlier and 1.2.8 and
earlier is vulnerable to an unserialize attack which could be abused to
allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with the
permissions of the webserver.

Authors

tdz
Felix Wilhelm

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

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

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