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D-Link DIR-859 Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

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D-Link DIR-859 Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

Disclosed
12/24/2019
Created
01/21/2020

Description

D-Link DIR-859 Routers are vulnerable to OS command injection via the UPnP interface. The vulnerability exists in /gena.cgi (function genacgi_main() in /htdocs/cgibin), which is accessible without credentials.

Author(s)

  • Miguel Mendez Z., <Miguel Mendez Z., @s1kr10s>
  • Pablo Pollanco P.

Platform

Linux

Architectures

mipsbe

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/upnp/dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec
msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(dlink_dir859_subscribe_exec) > exploit

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