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QuickTime Streaming Server parse_xml.cgi Remote Execution

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Disclosed
Feb 24, 2003
Created
May 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

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/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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