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CA iTechnology iGateway Debug Mode Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Oct 6, 2005
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the Computer Associates
iTechnology iGateway component. When True is enabled
in igateway.conf (non-default), it is possible to overwrite the stack
and execute code remotely. This module works best with Ordinal payloads.

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

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