Record summary

CVE-2018-13415 has a selected CVSS score of 9.8 (critical); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

In Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154, the XML parsing engine for SSDP/UPnP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing (XXE) attack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to: (1) Access arbitrary files from the filesystem with the same permission as the user account running Plex, (2) Initiate SMB connections to capture a NetNTLM challenge/response and crack to cleartext password, or (3) Initiate SMB connections to relay a NetNTLM challenge/response and achieve Remote Command Execution in Windows domains.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
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Proofs of concept

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Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBPlex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity InjectionExploitDB exploitby Chris MoberlyNot analyzed1 file
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