Description
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) 10 through SP1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an api/login request containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, as demonstrated by reading the /etc/shadow file.
Public exploits
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Metasploit 1 module
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EMC CTA v10.0 Unauthenticated XXE Arbitrary File Read
auxiliary/gather/emc_cta_xxe
Exploit-DB 1
- EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance 10.0 - XML External Entity Arbitrary File Read (Metasploit) EDB-32623 · webapps · Mar 31, 2014
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