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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Exploiting Shellshock using Burp


In this recipe, we will use Burp to exploit the Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271) vulnerability. If you haven't heard about the vulnerability, which is also known as the Bash bug, it was the GNU bash remote code execution vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to gain access over a target machine. Since is being widely used, this vulnerability had a huge attack surface and given the high severity and ease of exploit of this bug, it was one of the highest impact security issues identified in 2014; therefore, we decided to demonstrate how it can be exploited using Burp.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • Kali Linux running in Oracle Virtualbox/VMware
  • Docker installed and running in Kali
  • An Internet connection

How to do it...

For this recipe, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. We will start this recipe by searching and downloading a container from Docker hub, which is vulnerable to Shellshock, using the following command:
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