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This PR is related to #19975
In order to reduce the memory footprint of Meterpreter on target system is necessary to be sure only necessary code is loaded inside Meterpreter.

While working on standard api split, I noticed the presence of two extensions that were loaded without the user knowladge, priv and unhook.
This PR modifies the loading logic to use a datastore option AutoLoadExtension which contains a ';' separated list of extensions to load. At the moment inside lib/msf/base/sessions/meterpreter.rb is present a code block (commented) that keep the compability of the current working logic of Meterpreter.

Since the AutoLoadExtension logic depends on the platform, the break-up of meterpreter_option.rb to platform-specific option was necessary.

Tasks:

  • meterpreter_options/common.rb
  • meterpreter_options/linux.rb
  • meterpreter_options/windows.rb
  • meterpreter_options/android.rb
  • meterpreter_options/osx.rb
  • meterpreter_options/python.rb
  • meterpreter_options/php.rb
  • meterpreter_options/java.rb
  • meterpreter_options/apple_ios.rb
  • meterpreter_options/bsd.rb
  • Remove meterpreter_options.rb

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dledda-r7 commented Apr 9, 2025

Also blocked by #19799
because need of modify: tools/modules/meterpreter_reverse.erb

To future me: modify it to have the architecutre specific MeterpreterOptions

Let's resolve the conflicts once one of them is landed.

@dledda-r7 dledda-r7 changed the title [WIP] Remove default loaded extensions on Meterpreter [WIP] MeterpreterOptions break-up and default extension loading removal Apr 9, 2025
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@dledda-r7 dledda-r7 changed the title [WIP] MeterpreterOptions break-up and default extension loading removal MeterpreterOptions break-up and default extension loading removal Jun 2, 2025
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