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QuickTime Streaming Server parse_xml.cgi Remote Execution

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QuickTime Streaming Server parse_xml.cgi Remote Execution

Disclosed
02/24/2003
Created
05/30/2018

Description

The QuickTime Streaming Server contains a CGI script that is vulnerable to metacharacter injection, allow arbitrary commands to be executed as root.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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

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