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Narcissus Image Configuration Passthru Vulnerability

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Disclosed
Nov 14, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Narcissus image configuration
function. This is due to the backend.php file not handling the $release parameter
properly, and then passes it on to the configure_image() function. In this
function, the $release parameter can be used to inject system commands for
passthru (a PHP function that's meant to be used to run a bash script by the
vulnerable application), which allows remote code execution under the context
of the web server.

Authors

Dun
sinn3r [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/narcissus_backend_exec
    msf exploit(narcissus_backend_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(narcissus_backend_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(narcissus_backend_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(narcissus_backend_exec) > exploit
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