Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor TarArchive Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Description
This module exploits a vulnerability found in Cisco Prime Infrastructure. The issue is that the TarArchive Java class the HA Health Monitor component uses does not check for any directory traversals while unpacking a Tar file, which can be abused by a remote user to leverage the UploadServlet class to upload a JSP payload to the Apache Tomcat's web apps directory, and gain arbitrary remote code execution. Note that authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
Author(s)
- Steven Seeley
- sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>
Platform
Linux
Architectures
x86
Development
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/linux/http/cpi_tararchive_upload
msf exploit(cpi_tararchive_upload) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(cpi_tararchive_upload) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(cpi_tararchive_upload) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(cpi_tararchive_upload) > exploit
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