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Oracle MySQL for Microsoft Windows FILE Privilege Abuse

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Disclosed
Dec 1, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module takes advantage of a file privilege misconfiguration problem
specifically against Windows MySQL servers. This module abuses the FILE
privilege to write a payload to Microsoft's All Users Start Up directory
which will execute every time a user logs in. The default All Users Start
Up directory used by the module is present on Windows 7.

Authors

sinn3r [email protected]
Sean Verity [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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