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CVE-2012-10022 affects Kloxo 6.1.12 and earlier. The product ships with two setuid-root binaries, lxsuexec and lxrestart. According to the provided content, lxsuexec performs a UID-based authorization check and allows execution of arbitrary commands as root when the invoking user is UID 48. Because UID 48 is typically associated with the Apache/web-server context on affected systems, an attacker who has obtained code execution or shell access in that context can invoke the vulnerable setuid binary and execute commands with root privileges. This is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability caused by improper privilege management and reliance on an unsafe identity check in a setuid-root program.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module (modules/exploits/linux/local/kloxo_lxsuexec.rb) targeting a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kloxo versions 6.1.12 and earlier (CVE-2012-10022). The exploit abuses the setuid root binaries 'lxsuexec' and 'lxrestart' to escalate privileges from the 'apache' user (UID 48) to root. The module checks the current UID, writes a Metasploit-generated payload to a temporary file in /tmp, and uses the vulnerable binaries to execute the payload as root. The exploit is operational and provides a root shell if successful. The main fingerprintable endpoints are the setuid binaries '/usr/sbin/lxrestart', the temporary files in '/tmp', and the '/etc/passwd' file for user enumeration. The code is written in Ruby and is structured as a standard Metasploit local exploit module.
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