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VMware vCenter Server Analytics (CEIP) Service File Upload

Disclosed
09/21/2021
Created
10/07/2021

Description

This module exploits a file upload in VMware vCenter Server's analytics/telemetry (CEIP) service to write a system crontab and execute shell commands as the root user. Note that CEIP must be enabled for the target to be exploitable by this module. CEIP is enabled by default.

Author(s)

  • George Noseevich
  • Sergey Gerasimov
  • VMware
  • Derek Abdine
  • wvu <wvu@metasploit.com>

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

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

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