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Memcached Stats Amplification Scanner
This Metasploit module can be used to discover Memcached servers which expose the unrestricted UDP port 11211. A basic “stats” request is executed to check if an amplification attack is possible against a third party.
### This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework##class MetasploitModule < Msf::Auxiliary include Msf::Auxiliary::Report include Msf::Exploit::Capture include Msf::Auxiliary::UDPScanner include Msf::Auxiliary::DRDoS def initialize super( 'Name' => 'Memcached Stats Amplification Scanner', 'Description' => %q( This module can be used to discover Memcached servers which expose the unrestricted UDP port 11211. A basic "stats" request is executed to check if an amplification attack is possible against a third party. ), 'Author' => [ 'Marek Majkowski', # Cloudflare blog and base payload 'xistence <xistence[at]0x90.nl>', # Metasploit scanner module 'Jon Hart <[email protected]>', # Metasploit scanner module ], 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'DisclosureDate' => 'Feb 27 2018', 'References' => [ ['URL', 'https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/'], ['CVE', '2018-1000115'] ] ) register_options([ Opt::RPORT(11211) ]) end def build_probe # Memcached stats probe, per https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/doc/protocol.txt @memcached_probe ||= [ rand(2**16), # random request ID 0, # sequence number 1, # number of datagrams in this sequence 0, # reserved; must be 0 "stats\r\n" ].pack("nnnna*") end def scanner_process(data, shost, sport) # Check the response data for a "STAT" response if data =~ /\x0d\x0aSTAT\x20/ @results[shost] ||= [] @results[shost] << data end end # Called after the scan block def scanner_postscan(batch) @results.keys.each do |host| response_map = { @memcached_probe => @results[host] } report_service( host: host, proto: 'udp', port: rport, name: 'memcached' ) peer = "#{host}:#{rport}" vulnerable, proof = prove_amplification(response_map) what = 'memcached stats amplification' if vulnerable print_good("#{peer} - Vulnerable to #{what}: #{proof}") report_vuln( host: host, port: rport, proto: 'udp', name: what, refs: references ) else vprint_status("#{peer} - Not vulnerable to #{what}: #{proof}") end end endend