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CVE-2021-38648 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) on Linux and UNIX systems. A local attacker can exploit the flaw to elevate privileges to root. OMI commonly runs with root privileges as part of multiple Azure management, monitoring, automation, and security services, increasing the consequence of local compromise on affected hosts.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module (modules/exploits/linux/local/cve_2021_38648_omigod.rb) that exploits CVE-2021-38648, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft OMI (Open Management Infrastructure) on Linux/Unix systems. The exploit targets systems running a vulnerable version of OMI (prior to 1.6.8-1) by abusing the local OMI management UNIX socket to execute arbitrary commands as root, bypassing authentication. The module supports two payload types: direct command execution and dropping/executing a payload binary. It requires a local session on the target and leverages Python to interact with the OMI socket. The module references the OMI server binary at /opt/omi/bin/omiserver and the UNIX socket at /var/opt/omi/run/omiserver.sock. The exploit is operational and provides root-level access if successful.
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