Huntress Labs, Rapid7, and ArticWolf all recently published reports of threat actors exploiting ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604 to drop ransomware onto the victim host.
The attackers used CVE-2023-46604 to invoke cmd.exe followed by curl.exe or msiexec.exe in order to download and execute their ransomware. The attackers were very obvious and caught the aforementioned companies’ attention, all of which offer managed detection and response products. However, the attacks needn’t have been so noisy. In this blog, we will explore how an attacker can exploit CVE-2023-46604 and execute arbitrary code from memory.
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Source: VulnCheck