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FLIR AX8 unauthenticated RCE

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FLIR AX8 unauthenticated RCE

Disclosed
08/19/2022
Created
11/01/2022

Description

All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras versions up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to Remote Command Injection. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the id HTTP POST parameter in the res.php endpoint. This module uses the vulnerability to upload and execute payloads gaining root privileges.

Author(s)

  • Thomas Knudsen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasjknudsen)
  • Samy Younsi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samy-younsi)
  • h00die-gr3y

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, armle

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/flir_ax8_unauth_rce_cve_2022_37061
msf exploit(flir_ax8_unauth_rce_cve_2022_37061) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(flir_ax8_unauth_rce_cve_2022_37061) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(flir_ax8_unauth_rce_cve_2022_37061) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(flir_ax8_unauth_rce_cve_2022_37061) > exploit

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