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Quantum DXi V1000 SSH Private Key Exposure

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Quantum DXi V1000 SSH Private Key Exposure

Disclosed
03/17/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

Quantum ships a public/private key pair on DXi V1000 2.2.1 appliances that allows passwordless authentication to any other DXi box. Since the key is easily retrievable, an attacker can use it to gain unauthorized remote access as root.

Author(s)

  • xistence <xistence@0x90.nl>

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/linux/ssh/quantum_dxi_known_privkey
msf exploit(quantum_dxi_known_privkey) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(quantum_dxi_known_privkey) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(quantum_dxi_known_privkey) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(quantum_dxi_known_privkey) > exploit

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