Metasploit modules that can be used to exploit PHP » PHP » 5.0 rc1

When run as a CGI, PHP up to version 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 is vulnerable to an argument injection vulnerability. This module takes advantage of the -d flag to set php.ini directives to achieve code execution. From the advisory: "if there is NO unescaped '=' in the query string, the string is split on '+' (encoded space) characters, urldecoded, passed to a function that escapes shell metacharacters (the "encoded in a system-defined manner" from the RFC) and then passes them to the CGI binary." This module can also be used to exploit the plesk 0day disclosed by kingcope and exploited in the wild on June 2013. Authors: - egypt <egypt@metasploit.com> - hdm <x@hdm.io> - jjarmoc - kingcope - juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>

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This module uses a denial-of-service (DoS) condition appearing in a variety of programming languages. This vulnerability occurs when storing multiple values in a hash table and all values have the same hash value. This can cause a web server parsing the POST parameters issued with a request into a hash table to consume hours of CPU with a single HTTP request. Currently, only the hash functions for PHP and Java are implemented. This module was tested with PHP + httpd, Tomcat, Glassfish and Geronimo. It also generates a random payload to bypass some IDS signatures. Authors: - Alexander Klink - Julian Waelde - Scott A. Crosby - Dan S. Wallach - Krzysztof Kotowicz - Christian Mehlmauer <FireFart@gmail.com>

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