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BEA Weblogic Transfer-Encoding Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Sep 9, 2008
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow in the BEA
Weblogic Apache plugin. This vulnerability exists in the
error reporting for unknown Transfer-Encoding headers.
You may have to run this twice due to timing issues with handlers.

Author

Platform

Windows

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

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