MODULE

Overlayfs Privilege Escalation

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Overlayfs Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
06/16/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module attempts to exploit two different CVEs related to overlayfs. CVE-2015-1328: Ubuntu specific -> 3.13.0-24 (14.04 default) < 3.13.0-55 3.16.0-25 (14.10 default) < 3.16.0-41 3.19.0-18 (15.04 default) < 3.19.0-21 CVE-2015-8660: Ubuntu: 3.19.0-18 < 3.19.0-43 4.2.0-18 < 4.2.0-23 (14.04.1, 15.10) Fedora: < 4.2.8 (vulnerable, un-tested) Red Hat: < 3.10.0-327 (rhel 6, vulnerable, un-tested)

Author(s)

  • h00die <mike@shorebreaksecurity.com>
  • rebel

Platform

Linux

Architectures

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

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