3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 4/27/18
After last week's seriously serious write-up
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2018/04/20/metasploit-wrapup-36/], 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 hard at work to add a module targeting CVE-2018-7600
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/drupal-cve-2018-7600]. You can
5 min
Vulnerability Management
Drupalgeddon Vulnerability: What is it? Are You Impacted?
First up: many thanks to Brent Cook [/author/brent-cook/], William Vu
[/author/william-vu/] and Matt Hand for their massive assistance in both the
Rapid7 research into “Drupalgeddon” and their contributions to this post.
Background on the Drupalgeddon vulnerability
The Drupalgeddon 2 vulnerability announcement came out in late March (2018-03-28
) as SA-CORE-2018-002 [https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002]. The advisory
was released with a patch and CVE (CVE-2018-7600)
[https://www.rapid7.com/
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 4/20/18
You may have noticed that our weekly wrapups
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/tag/metasploit-weekly-wrapup/] 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 a new leaf. No longer will cheap comedy
cover the pages of this professional publication.
In honor of April 20th, this blog post will remain serious.
Seriously.
Google Summer of
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 4/13/18
What's Your Favorite Security Site?
When you are browsing sites on the Internet, you may notice some sites
[http://www.irongeek.com/] 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 range
[https://media.giphy.com/media/3otPoDVeyxTT1jIKqc/giphy.gif]? This might be a
little worrying [https://media.giphy.com/media/xhaHU2l56OSYM/giphy.gif], but
before you run off you check to make sure the coast is cle
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 4/7/18
Mobile Moose
This week marked the beginning of our time in the new office. Everything got
packed up and moved: computers, chairs, Rudy’s cups, and odd soy sauce packets
in the back of the drawers. One consequence of moving to downtown Austin is that
the lunch debates take longer, with flame wars about both the best tacos and the
best barbecue.
Metasploit: Now With More Snakes!
@shellfail [https://twitter.com/shellfail] doubled down this wrapup; way back in
March, he wrote a guide to writing P
4 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 4/2/18
Spring has come again to Austin, TX, home of the Rapid7 Metasploit team. While
the season here brings pollen and allergies, it also brings fields full of
bluebonnets and folks taking pictures before they all disappear. Let's celebrate
by looking at what's popped up in Metasploit this week.
New Data Model
Last week, we landed the beginning of a new backend service for Metasploit,
dubbed 'Goliath', which creates a new abstraction between Metasploit Framework
and how it interacts with the databa
3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 3/23/18
Adding some named pipes to everyone's favorite series of tubes
UserExistsError already added 64-bit named pipe payloads, and this week, we got
an extra-special upgrade: now Metasploit has 32-bit named pipe payloads! It may
feel wrong not setting a port, but connecting to existing network resources
feels so right!
It is the Final Countdown for GSoC!
The final deadline for Google Summer of Code applicants is March 27th, so get
your applications in now! We are honored to be a part of the progra
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 3/16/18
Return of the GSoC!
The Metasploit project is proud to return to Google Summer of Code this year.
Student applications are open until March 27th, so there's still time to get in!
Coding begins on May 14th, and we're eager to hear what you'd like to see added
to Metasploit. Not only do you get to work on a cool project, but you'll get
paid too [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-stipends]!
Need some inspiration? Check out our list of project ideas
[https://github.com/rapi
3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 3/9/18
With the Northeast U.S. getting hit with back-to-back nor’easters this week,
it’s probably a good idea to head back inside and wait it out until spring
arrives. So toss another log on the fire, grab a hot drink, raise a toast to
all
the folks making Metasploit awesome
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/graphs/contributors], and catch
up on the latest!
It Goes to 11
While amplification attacks are nothing new, the memcached amplification attack
vector (reffered to as “memcrashed”
5 min
Metasploit
Guest post: Lurking in /lib
This is a guest post from a long-time Metasploit contributor and community
member. Over the next few months, Rapid7 will be publishing a series of guest
posts featuring unique perspectives on Metasploit Framework and highlighting
some of our community’s favorite functionality, hidden gems, and backstories.
Want to contribute an idea or a post? Reach out to community[at]rapid7.com.
Back in my day, you could get dinner, dessert, and ride the trolley home all for a nickel. Oh, and we used SVN for
3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 2/23/18
More Servers Please
A new module [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/9441] by Pedro
Ribeiro combines vulnerabilities for certain firmware versions of AsusWRT, which
allows an unauthenticated user to enable a special command mode on the device.
When the command mode is enabled, the device spins up infosvr on UDP port 9999.
The great thing about infosvr is that you can construct UDP packets to have it
execute commands on your behalf…. as root.
Back in Windows Land
In case your
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 2/16/18
Wintertime can be a drag. Folks get tired of shoveling snow, scraping ice from
windshields, dealing with busted water pipes, etc.. Thoughts of “fun in the sun”
activities start to seep in, as people begin wistfully daydreaming about
summertime. And for this coming summer, Metasploit has some hotness to daydream
about!
Google Summer of Code: We’re In!
The Metasploit team is SUPER EXCITED to have been recently selected by Google
[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/666336840069939
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 2/9/18
Teenage ROBOT Returns
Imagine the joy robot parents must feel when their infant leaves home and
returns as a teenager. ROBOT (Return of Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat)
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/12/13/attention-humans-the-robot-attack/]
is a 19-year-old vulnerability that allows RSA decryption and signing with the
private key of a TLS server. It allows for an adaptive-chosen ciphertext attack.
It is still very much relevant today as some modern HTTPS hosts are vulnerable
to ROBOT [htt
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Feb. 2, 2018
It’s a special day here in the U.S.. This morning, media folks were hovering
over a specific rodent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punxsutawney_Phil] living
in an eastern state to discover that we are in for six more weeks of winter
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-groundhogday/groundhog-phil-predicts-more-cold-weather-chuck-says-spring-is-coming-idUSKBN1FM14L]
, apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Guess we’ll stay inside and work on Metasploit…
EternalSunshine of the Security Minded
If you’re still
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Jan. 26, 2018
In last week’s wrap-up post
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2018/01/19/metasploit-wrapup-24/], we raised
awareness of the new Metasploit 5 work we’re ramping up on. This week, please
GoAhead [https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17562] and
enjoy some new Metasploit goodies!
Get Up, GoAhead
Based on research from danielhodson [https://github.com/danielhodson], hdm
[https://github.com/hdm] and h00die [https://github.com/h00die] put together a
new module [https://www.elttam.