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Your weekly run-down of the modules and improvements that landed in Metasploit Framework.…
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Ghost(script) in the shell There has been a lot of buzz the last couple weeks about Google Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy's new Ghostscript -dSAFER bypass, now complete with a Metasploit module. With some valiant work by wvu and taviso himself, the latest way to…
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VPN to root The Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation module by bcoles exploits a privilege escalation attack in the Network Manager VPNC plugin configuration data (CVE-2018-10900) to gain root privileges. Network Manager VPNC versions prior to 1.2.6 are vulnerable and the module…
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ssh_enumusers Gets An Update wvu integrated the malformed packet technique into the ssh_enumusers module originally written by kenkeiras. This module allows an attacker to guess the user accounts on an OpenSSH server on versions up to 7.7, allowing the module to work…
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We had a great time meeting everyone at the various Metasploit events at hacker summer camp last week, including two popup capture the flag events with Metasploitable3, the Open Source Security Meetup and selling Metasploit 0xf Anniversary Tour.…
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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself Even if you're a pro sleuth who can sniff out a vulnerability on even the most hardened of networks, it's always nice to be have some added validation that your attack is going to be successful. That's why it's…
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Meterpreter on Axis Everyone loves shells, but Meterpreter sessions are always better. Thanks to William Vu, the axis_srv_parhand_rce module is now capable of giving you a Meterpreter session instead of a regular shell with netcat. DLL Injection for POP/MOV SS Another…
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CMS Exploitation Made Simple "CMS Made Simple" is an open-source Content Management System. Mustafa Hasen discovered and reported that versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.7 include a vulnerability in file uploads that permit an authenticated attacker to gain execution of arbitrary…
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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…
