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VirtualBox Guest Additions VBoxGuest.sys Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Jul 15, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

A vulnerability within the VBoxGuest driver allows an attacker to inject memory they
control into an arbitrary location they define. This can be used by an attacker to
overwrite HalDispatchTable+0x4 and execute arbitrary code by subsequently calling
NtQueryIntervalProfile on Windows XP SP3 systems. This has been tested with VBoxGuest
Additions up to 4.3.10r93012.

Authors

Matt Bergin [email protected]
Jay Smith [email protected]

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/local/virtual_box_guest_additions
    msf exploit(virtual_box_guest_additions) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(virtual_box_guest_additions) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(virtual_box_guest_additions) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(virtual_box_guest_additions) > exploit
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