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VX Search Enterprise GET Buffer Overflow

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VX Search Enterprise GET Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
03/15/2017
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the web interface of VX Search Enterprise v9.5.12, caused by improper bounds checking of the request path in HTTP GET requests sent to the built-in web server. This module has been tested successfully on Windows 7 SP1 x86.

Author(s)

  • Daniel Teixeira

Platform

Windows

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

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