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Symantec System Center Alert Management System (hndlrsvc.exe) Arbitrary Command Execution

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Symantec System Center Alert Management System (hndlrsvc.exe) Arbitrary Command Execution

Disclosed
07/26/2010
Created
05/30/2018

Description

Symantec System Center Alert Management System is prone to a remote command-injection vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. This is part of Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0 - 10.1.7.

Author(s)

  • MC <mc@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

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

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