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Microsoft Exchange Privilege Escalation Exploit

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Microsoft Exchange Privilege Escalation Exploit

Disclosed
01/21/2019
Created
10/18/2019

Description

This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability found in Microsoft Exchange - CVE-2019-0724 Execution of the module will force Exchange to authenticate to an arbitrary URL over HTTP via the Exchange PushSubscription feature. This allows us to relay the NTLM authentication to a Domain Controller and authenticate with the privileges that Exchange is configured. The module is based on the work by @_dirkjan,

Author(s)

  • _dirkjan
  • Petros Koutroumpis

Development

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/scanner/http/exchange_web_server_pushsubscription
msf auxiliary(exchange_web_server_pushsubscription) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(exchange_web_server_pushsubscription) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(exchange_web_server_pushsubscription) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(exchange_web_server_pushsubscription) > run

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