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IBM Lotus Notes Client URL Handler Command Injection

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Disclosed
Jun 18, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in the URL handler for
for the IBM Lotus Notes Client a specially crafted notes:// URL to execute arbitrary commands with also arbitrary
arguments. This module has been tested successfully on Windows XP SP3 with IE8,
Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m and IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.5.2.

Authors

Moritz Jodeit
Sean de Regge
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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