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Print Spooler Remote DLL Injection

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
Jul 8, 2021

Description

The print spooler service can be abused by an authenticated remote attacker to load a DLL through a crafted
DCERPC request, resulting in remote code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This module uses the MS-RPRN
vector which requires the Print Spooler service to be running.

Authors

Zhiniang Peng
Xuefeng Li
Zhipeng Huo
Piotr Madej
Zhang Yunhai
cube0x0
Spencer McIntyre
Christophe De La Fuente

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 auxiliary/admin/dcerpc/cve_2021_1675_printnightmare
    msf auxiliary(cve_2021_1675_printnightmare) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(cve_2021_1675_printnightmare) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(cve_2021_1675_printnightmare) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(cve_2021_1675_printnightmare) > run
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