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CVE-2009-3733 is a directory traversal vulnerability in the net-snmp package of the Service Console in VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.10 build 203137, 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138 on Linux, VMware ESXi 3.5, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 and 3.5. Remote attackers with network access to the Service Console can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the host system via crafted requests that traverse directories, due to insufficient sanitization of file paths in the net-snmp implementation.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit auxiliary scanner module targeting a directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2009-3733) in VMware Server and ESX/ESXi products. The module exploits the vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP GET request with a directory traversal sequence to read arbitrary files from the server. The default target file is '/etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml', but this can be changed by the user. The module is designed to scan and report vulnerable hosts, and is not a detection script but an actual exploit that demonstrates the vulnerability. The code is written in Ruby and leverages Metasploit's HTTP client and scanner mixins. No hardcoded IPs or domains are present, but the attack is performed over network-accessible HTTP(S) ports (default 8222/8333/80/443).
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