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CVE-2015-2997 is a path disclosure vulnerability in SysAid Help Desk prior to version 15.2, specifically affecting Linux installations. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can trigger an error message by supplying an invalid value to the 'accountid' parameter in the getAgentLogFile endpoint, which reveals the installation path of the application (e.g., the Tomcat server path) in the error response. This is typically demonstrated by using a large directory traversal sequence.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit auxiliary module (modules/auxiliary/admin/http/sysaid_file_download.rb) that exploits two vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-2996 and CVE-2015-2997) in SysAid Help Desk 14.4. The module allows an unauthenticated attacker to download arbitrary files from the target system by first abusing an information disclosure vulnerability to determine the file system path, and then exploiting a directory traversal vulnerability to retrieve files. The exploit works on both Windows and Linux, but with some limitations on Windows (e.g., only able to traverse the current drive). The module is written in Ruby and leverages Metasploit's HTTP client mixin to interact with the target. The main endpoints targeted are /sysaid/getAgentLogFile (for path discovery) and /sysaid/getGfiUpgradeFile (for file download). The exploit is operational and provides the attacker with the ability to exfiltrate files from the target system.
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