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Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 Default SSH Password Vulnerability

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Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 Default SSH Password Vulnerability

Disclosed
08/27/2012
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a default misconfiguration flaw on Symantec Messaging Gateway. The 'support' user has a known default password, which can be used to login to the SSH service, and gain privileged access from remote.

Author(s)

  • Stefan Viehbock
  • Ben Williams
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>

Platform

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

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