cve/2017/CVE-2017-5229.md

CVE-2017-5229

Description

All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter extapi Clipboard.parse_dump() function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit console with the permissions of the running Metasploit instance.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/justinsteven/advisories