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Privilege Escalation Linux BPF CVE-2017-16995 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the way that a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is verified. Multiple sign extension bugs allows memory corruption by unprivileged users, which could be used for a local privilege escalation attack by overwriting a credential…
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Committing to some shells in GitList Shelby has been killing it with new exploit and aux modules by the day. In this iteration, she's produced an exploit for GitList 0.6.0 and likely older versions. The software is built on PHP and allows users…
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New Modules Exploit modules (3 new) Nagios XI Chained Remote Code Execution by Benny Husted, Cale Smith, and Jared Arave, which exploits CVE-2018-8736. Monitor this series of unfortunate events all the way to magical shells. Boxoft WAV to MP3 Converter v1.1 Buffer Overflow by…
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Moar Power OJ Reeves added two new PowerShell transport functions to Metasploit payloads and made modifications to the PowerShell transport binding functionality. The aptly-named Add-TcpTransport function adds an active TCP transport to the current session and the Add-WebTransport function adds an HTTP/S transport to…
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Welcome to another installment of the week! This installment features a new ETERNALBLUE module in everyone's favorite reptile-brain language, Python! Sporting support for Windows 8 and 10, it has everything you need, including immutable strings and enforced whitespace. In other Windows 10 news, chervalierly fixed…
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New Privilege Escalation Exploit The glibc 'realpath()' module was added by bcoles. It attempts to gain root privileges on Debian-based Linux systems by exploiting a vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) version <= 2.26. This exploit uses halfdog's RationalLove exploit to expose a…
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Just Let Me Grab My Popcorn First This week, rmdavy contributed a pair of modules designed to fool Windows into authenticating to you so you can capture sweet, sweet NetNTLM hashes. BadODT targets LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice by providing a link to an image on a…
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Upgrade Your SOCKS Thanks to zeroSteiner, we have some very nice additions to the SOCKS5 library this week. His changes enabled BIND connections through the SOCKS5 proxy, improved automated testing around the code, and broke it up into more manageable, targeted submodules. Now that Trevor’…
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You Compile Me Our very own wchen-r7 added the ability to compile C code in metasploit, including (select) dependencies by creating a wrapper for metasm. Right now, support for windows.h is the first salvo in custom compiling tools within the metasploit interface! Hack all…
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Chaining Vulnerabilities Philip Pettersson discovered vulnerabilities in certain PAN OS versions that could lead to remote code execution and hdm wrote a Metasploit module for the exploit chain. The exploit chain starts off with an authentication bypass, which allows the module to access a page…
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May the fourth be with you… Get comfortable, put on your headphones or turn up your speaker volume, and enjoy this guitar rendition of the Ewok Celebration, commonly known as Yub Nub while catching up on Metasploit updates for the week. PHP Debugging Xdebug is…
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After last week's seriously serious write-up, this week we will return to our norml normal, lighthearted (and Metasploit-hearted) wrap-ups, though we remain fans of terrible 80s movies. Drupalgeddon 2: Webdev Boogaloo After last month's Drupal exploit came to light, nearly a dozen developers have been…
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You may have noticed that our weekly wrapups tend to be very light-hearted. A few might say our blog is humourous. Some might even argue that they incorporate low-brow internet jokes and an excessive quantity of memes. Well, I'm here to say we've turned over…
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What's Your Favorite Security Site? When you are browsing sites on the Internet, you may notice some sites will include your public IP address on their pages. But what if you came across a site that also showed your IP address from your private network…
