Plex Unpickle Dict Windows Remote Code Execution
Posted by deepcore on July 19, 2020 – 12:33 am
This Metasploit module exploits an authenticated Python unsafe pickle.load of a Dict file. An authenticated attacker can create a photo library and add arbitrary files to it. After setting the Windows only Plex variable LocalAppDataPath to the newly created photo library, a file named Dict will be unpickled, which causes remote code execution as the user who started Plex. Plex_Token is required, to get it you need to log-in through a web browser, then check the requests to grab the X-Plex-Token header. See info -d for additional details. If an exploit fails, or is cancelled, Dict is left on disk, a new ALBUM_NAME will be required as subsequent writes will make Dict-1, and not execute.
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