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Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Authentication Bypass and Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jul 31, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits three separate vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
in order to achieve a remote shell on the box as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The vulnerabilities
include an authentication bypass, a directory traversal and a privilege escalation to
get privileged code execution.

Authors

Markus Wulftange
bperry

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

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