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WatchGuard Fireware v11.12.1 and earlier mishandles requests referring to an XML External Entity (XXE), in the XML-RPC agent. This causes the Firebox wgagent process to crash. This process crash ends all authenticated sessions to the Firebox, including management connections, and prevents new authenticated sessions until the process has recovered. The Firebox may also experience an overall degradation in performance while the wgagent process recovers. An attacker could continuously send XML-RPC requests that contain references to external entities to perform a limited Denial of Service (DoS) attack against an affected Firebox.
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This repository contains a Python exploit script (xmlrpc.py) and a README.md. The exploit targets CVE-2017-8056, a vulnerability in WordPress's XML-RPC interface, by performing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The script takes command-line arguments for the target URL, port, number of threads, number of RPC requests per connection, and attack duration. It spawns multiple threads, each repeatedly sending crafted XML-RPC POST requests to the /xmlrpc.php endpoint of the target server, overwhelming it and potentially causing service disruption. The script supports both HTTP and HTTPS connections and randomizes the User-Agent header. The README provides installation and usage instructions for both Linux and Windows environments. No hardcoded IPs or domains are present; the target is specified at runtime. The exploit is operational, not weaponized, and is focused on causing a DoS condition rather than gaining unauthorized access.
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