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Adminer Arbitrary File Read

cve-2021 | Level: Easy  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab

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In this lab environment, the user will access a Kali GUI instance. A vulnerable machine running Adminer is deployed on http://demo.ine.local.  


Adminer is a popular open-source web-based database management tool written in PHP. However, Adminer versions 1.12.0 to 4.6.2 suffer from Improper Access Control (fixed in version 4.6.3) that allows an attacker to achieve Arbitrary File Read on the remote server by requesting the Adminer to connect to a remote MySQL database. 


This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE id CVE-2021-43008.


A vulnerable version of Adminer is installed on the target machine. Your task is to exploit the Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in Adminer to read and exfiltrate local files to the database. 


The following details might be useful:


System

MySQL

Server

localhost

Username

lfr_sink_user

Password

lfr_sink_password

Database

lfr_sink_db


The database consists of an empty table named “lfr_sink_table”.

Objective: Exploit the Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in Adminer (v4.6.2) to read and exfiltrate local files to the database. Read the flag present in the system root directory.

 Instructions: 

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    • Once you start the lab, you will have access to a root terminal of a Kali instance.
    • Your Kali has an interface with IP address 192.X.Y.2. Run "ip addr" to know the values of X and Y.
    • The target server should be located at the IP address 192.X.Y.3.
    • Do not attack the gateway located at IP address 192.X.Y.1

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