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HP Data Protector 6 EXEC_CMD Remote Code Execution

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HP Data Protector 6 EXEC_CMD Remote Code Execution

Disclosed
02/07/2011
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This exploit abuses a vulnerability in the HP Data Protector service. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to take advantage of the EXEC_CMD command and traverse back to /bin/sh, this allows arbitrary remote code execution under the context of root.

Author(s)

  • ch0ks
  • c4an
  • wireghoul
  • Javier Ignacio

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd

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

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