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IBM Websphere Application Server Network Deployment Untrusted Data Deserialization Remote Code Execution

Disclosed
May 15, 2019
Created
Jun 4, 2019

Description

This module exploits untrusted serialized data processed by the WAS DMGR Server and Cells.
NOTE: There is a required 2 minute timeout between attempts as the neighbor being added must be reset.

Author

b0yd

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86, x64, cmd

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

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