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Microsoft OMI Management Interface Authentication Bypass

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Microsoft OMI Management Interface Authentication Bypass

Disclosed
09/14/2021
Created
11/09/2021

Description

By removing the authentication exchange, an attacker can issue requests to the local OMI management socket that will cause it to execute an operating system command as the root user. This vulnerability was patched in OMI version 1.6.8-1 (released September 8th 2021).

Author(s)

  • Nir Ohfeld
  • Shir Tamari
  • Spencer McIntyre

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/local/cve_2021_38648_omigod
msf exploit(cve_2021_38648_omigod) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(cve_2021_38648_omigod) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(cve_2021_38648_omigod) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(cve_2021_38648_omigod) > exploit

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