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VMware Detection

ID: vmware-detect

Severity: info

Author: elouhi

Tags: tech,vcenter,vmware

Description

Section titled “Description”

Sends a POST request containing a SOAP payload to a vCenter server to obtain version information

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: vmware-detect


info:
  name: VMware Detection
  author: elouhi
  severity: info
  description: Sends a POST request containing a SOAP payload to a vCenter server to obtain version information
  reference:
    - https://www.pwndefend.com/2021/09/23/exposed-vmware-vcenter-servers-around-the-world-cve-2021-22005/
    - https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/vmware-version.nse
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: tech,vcenter,vmware


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /sdk/ HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
           <soap:Header>
              <operationID>00000001-00000001</operationID>
           </soap:Header>
           <soap:Body>
              <RetrieveServiceContent xmlns="urn:internalvim25">
                 <_this xsi:type="ManagedObjectReference" type="ServiceInstance">ServiceInstance</_this>
              </RetrieveServiceContent>
           </soap:Body>
        </soap:Envelope>


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: status
        status:
          - 200


      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'ha-folder-root'
          - 'RetrieveServiceContentResponse'
        condition: or


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/xml"


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        group: 1
        regex:
          - "<name>(.*?)</name>"
          - "<version>(.*?)</version>"
          - "<build>(.*?)</build>"
          - "<osType>(.*?)</osType>"
          - "<productLineId>(.*?)</productLineId>"
          - "<apiType>(.*?)</apiType>"
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100a531d39f8c3f6d3c73ede07ee87640406e7414ecd75cfd8e58d884ea81008fb8022035d58495dc3621aa71ebe3bb8d798edd82eb7deef4f9970797a098fa1b97732a:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/technologies/vmware/vmware-detect.yaml"

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