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HP Data Protector Encrypted Communication Remote Command Execution

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Disclosed
Apr 18, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a well known remote code execution exploit after establishing encrypted
control communications with a Data Protector agent. This allows exploitation of Data
Protector agents that have been configured to only use encrypted control communications.

This exploit works by executing the payload with Microsoft PowerShell so will only work
against Windows Vista or newer. Tested against Data Protector 9.0 installed on Windows
Server 2008 R2.

Authors

Jon Barg
Ian Lovering

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86, x64

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