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Project Pier Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability

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Disclosed
Oct 8, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Project Pier. The application's
uploading tool does not require any authentication, which allows a malicious user
to upload an arbitrary file onto the web server, and then cause remote code
execution by simply requesting it. This module is known to work against Apache
servers due to the way it handles an extension name, but the vulnerability may
not be exploitable on others.

Authors

BlackHawk
sinn3r [email protected]

Platform

Linux,PHP

Architectures

cmd, php, x86

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