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Foswiki MAKETEXT Remote Command Execution

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Disclosed
2012-12-03
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the MAKETEXT Foswiki variable. By using
a specially crafted MAKETEXT, a malicious user can execute shell commands since the
input is passed to the Perl "eval" command without first being sanitized. The
problem is caused by an underlying security issue in the CPAN:Locale::Maketext
module. Only Foswiki sites that have user interface localization enabled
(UserInterfaceInternationalisation variable set) are vulnerable.

If USERNAME and PASSWORD aren't provided, anonymous access will be tried.
Also, if the FoswikiPage option isn't provided, the module will try to create a
random page on the SandBox space. The modules has been tested successfully on
Foswiki 1.1.5 as distributed with the official Foswiki-1.1.5-vmware image.

Authors

Brian Carlson
juan vazquez juan.vazquez@metasploit.com

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