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Nagios3 statuswml.cgi Ping Command Execution

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Disclosed
Jun 22, 2009
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the
Nagios3 statuswml.cgi script. This flaw is triggered when shell
metacharacters are present in the parameters to the ping and
traceroute commands.

Author

hdm [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/webapp/nagios3_statuswml_ping
    msf exploit(nagios3_statuswml_ping) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(nagios3_statuswml_ping) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(nagios3_statuswml_ping) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(nagios3_statuswml_ping) > exploit
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