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Nagios3 history.cgi Host Command Execution

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Nagios3 history.cgi Host Command Execution

Disclosed
12/09/2012
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module abuses a command injection vulnerability in the Nagios3 history.cgi script.

Author(s)

  • Unknown <temp66@gmail.com>
  • blasty <blasty@fail0verflow.com>
  • Jose Selvi <jselvi@pentester.es>
  • Daniele Martini <cyrax@pkcrew.org>

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

x86

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/webapp/nagios3_history_cgi
msf exploit(nagios3_history_cgi) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(nagios3_history_cgi) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(nagios3_history_cgi) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(nagios3_history_cgi) > exploit

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