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CA Unified Infrastructure Management Nimsoft 7.80 - Remote Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Feb 5, 2020
Created
Jul 31, 2020

Description

This module exploits a buffer overflow within the CA Unified Infrastructure Management nimcontroller.
The vulnerability occurs in the robot (controller) component when sending a specially crafted directory_list
probe.

Technically speaking the target host must also be vulnerable to CVE-2020-8010 in order to reach the
directory_list probe.

Author

wetw0rk

Platform

Windows

Architectures

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