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Exim and Dovecot Insecure Configuration Command Injection

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Exim and Dovecot Insecure Configuration Command Injection

Disclosed
05/03/2013
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability against Dovecot with Exim using the "use_shell" option. It uses the sender's address to inject arbitrary commands, since this is one of the user-controlled variables. It has been successfully tested on Debian Squeeze using the default Exim4 with the dovecot-common packages.

Author(s)

  • Unknown
  • eKKiM
  • juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86

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/smtp/exim4_dovecot_exec
msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(exim4_dovecot_exec) > exploit

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