Posts by Brendan Watters

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/25/2024

Hackers and Vampires Agree: Every Byte Counts Headlining the release today is a new exploit module by jheysel-r7 [https://github.com/jheysel-r7] that chains two vulnerabilities to target Magento/Adobe Commerce systems: the first, CVE-2024-34102 [https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2024-34102&referrer=blog] is an arbitrary file read used to determine the version and layout of the glibc library, and the second, CVE-2024-2961 [https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2024-2961&referrer=blog] is a single

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/12/2024

The Usual Suspects This release features two new exploits targeting old friends: Confluence and Ivanti. CVE-2024-21683 [https://attackerkb.com/search?q=CVE-2024-21683&referrer=blog] is a very easy vulnerability to exploit, but as pointed out in the AttackerKB Review [https://attackerkb.com/assessments/5ad314a1-9fd7-47d7-835f-f29680b3961d?referrer=blog] , it requires authentication as a ‘Confluence Administrator.’ On the other hand, CVE-2024-29824 is an unauthenticated SQL Injection in Ivanti End

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/07/2024

New OSX payloads:ARMed and Dangerous In addition to an RCE leveraging CVE-2024-5084 to gain RCE through a WordPress Hash form, this release features the addition of several new binary OSX stageless payloads with aarch64 support: Execute Command, Shell Bind TCP, and Shell Reverse TCP. The new osx/aarch64/shell_bind_tcp payload opens a listening port on the target machine, which allows the attacker to connect to this open port to spawn a command shell using the user provided command using the exe

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 05/31/2024

Quis dīrumpet ipsos dīrumpēs In this release, we feature a double-double: two exploits each targeting two pieces of software. The first pair is from h00die [https://github.com/h00die] targeting the Jasmine Ransomeware Web Server. The first uses CVE-2024-30851 to retrieve the login for the ransomware server, and the second is a directory traversal vulnerability allowing arbitrary file read. The second pair from Dave Yesland of Rhino Security targets Progress Flowmon with CVE-2024-2389 and it pai

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/29/2024

Metasploit adds three new exploit modules including an RCE for SharePoint.

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/19/24

Unicode your way to a php payload and three modules to add to your playbook for Ansible Our own jheysel-r7 added an exploit leveraging the fascinating tool of php filter chaining to prepend a payload using encoding conversion characters and h00die et. al. have come through and added 3 new Ansible post modules to gather configuration information, read files, and deploy payloads. While none offer instantaneous answers across the universe, they will certainly help in red team exercises. New module

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Dec. 15, 2023

Continuing the 12th Labor of Metasploit Metasploit continues its Herculean task of increasing our toolset to tame Kerberos by adding support for AS_REP Roasting, which allows retrieving the password hashes of users who have Do not require Kerberos preauthentication set on the domain controller. The setting is disabled by default, but it is enabled in some environments. Attackers can request the hash for any user with that option enabled, and worse (or better?) you can query the DC to determine

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Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/8/2023

New this week: An OwnCloud gather module and a Docker cgroups container escape. Plus, an early feature that allows users to search module actions, targets, and aliases.

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/10/23

Apache MQ and Three Cisco Modules in a Trenchcoat This week’s release has a lot of new content and features modules targeting two major recent vulnerabilities that got a great deal of attention: CVE-2023-46604 targeting Apache MQ [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/11/01/etr-suspected-exploitation-of-apache-activemq-cve-2023-46604/] resulting in ransomware deployment and CVE-2023-20198 targeting Cisco IOS XE OS [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/10/17/etr-cve-2023-20198-active-exploitati

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Oct. 19, 2023

That Privilege Escalation Escalated Quickly This release features a module leveraging CVE-2023-22515 [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/10/04/etr-cve-2023-22515-zero-day-privilege-escalation-in-confluence-server-and-data-center/] , a vulnerability in Atlassian’s on-premises Confluence Server first listed as a privilege escalation, but quickly recategorized as a “broken access control” with a CVSS score of 10. The exploit itself is very simple and easy to use so there was little surprise when

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 1, 2023

Pumpkin Spice Modules Here in the northern hemisphere, fall is on the way: leaves changing, the air growing crisp and cool, and some hackers changing the flavor of their caffeine. This release features a new exploit module targeting Apache NiFi as well as a new and improved library to interact with it. New module content (1) Apache NiFi H2 Connection String Remote Code Execution Authors: Matei "Mal" Badanoiu and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: #18257 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-fra

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 25, 2023

Power[shell]Point This week’s new features and improvements start with two new exploit modules leveraging CVE-2023-34960 [https://attackerkb.com/topics/VVJpMeSpUP/cve-2023-34960?referrer=blog] Chamilo versions 1.11.18 and below and CVE-2023-26469 [https://attackerkb.com/topics/RT7G6Vyw1L/cve-2023-26469?referrer=blog] in Jorani 1.0.0. Like CVE-2023-34960 [https://attackerkb.com/topics/VVJpMeSpUP/cve-2023-34960?referrer=blog], I too, feel attacked by PowerPoint sometimes. We also have several impr

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 6/30/23

Nothing but .NET? Smashery continues to… smash it by updating our .NET assembly execution module. The original module allowed users to run a .NET exe as a thread within a process they created on a remote host. Smashery’s improvements let users run the executable within a thread of the process hosting Meterpreter and also changed the I/O for the executing thread to support pipes, allowing interaction with the spawned .NET thread, even when the other process has control over STDIN and STDOUT. The

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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Jun. 9, 2023

MOVEit It has been a busy few weeks in the security space; the MOVEit [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/01/rapid7-observed-exploitation-of-critical-moveit-transfer-vulnerability/?utm_campaign=sm-blog&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social] vulnerability filling our news feeds with dancing lemurs and a Barracuda [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/08/etr-cve-2023-2868-total-compromise-of-physical-barracuda-esg-appliances/?utm_campaign=sm-ETR&utm_source=twitter,linkedin&utm_me

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Fetch Payloads: A Shorter Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session

Rapid7 is pleased to announce the availability of Metasploit fetch payloads, which increase efficiency and user control over the commands executed.