Cisco Global Exploiter

Cisco Global Exploiter (CGE) is designed for security testing against Cisco routers, switches, and related systems. It provides a straightforward interface to launch exploits against known vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS, Catalyst, and other products. The tool is particularly useful for penetration testers assessing Cisco network devices for common flaws.

Use cases include identifying exploitable Cisco configurations in lab environments, educational demonstrations of Cisco vulnerabilities, and authorized security audits. It supports a range of denial-of-service, buffer overflow, and arbitrary access vulnerabilities listed numerically from 1 to 14.

The tool operates via Perl and requires minimal dependencies, making it lightweight for quick deployment in Kali Linux environments.

The tool is a Perl script (cge.pl) that takes a target IP and vulnerability number as arguments. It implements exploits for specific Cisco flaws, such as HTTP auth bypass, buffer overflows, and DoS via protocols like Telnet, SSH, HTTP, and UDP. For example, vulnerability 3 targets Cisco IOS HTTP Auth, generating a successful exploitation URL like http://target/level/17/exec/... upon success.