module

VMware Workstation ALSA Config File Local Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
May 22, 2017
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pro and
Player on Linux which allows users to escalate their privileges by
using an ALSA configuration file to load and execute a shared object
as root when launching a virtual machine with an attached sound card.

This module has been tested successfully on VMware Player version
12.5.0 on Debian Linux 8 Jessie.

Authors

Jann Horn
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64

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/linux/local/vmware_alsa_config
    msf exploit(vmware_alsa_config) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(vmware_alsa_config) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(vmware_alsa_config) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(vmware_alsa_config) > exploit
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