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Adobe Flash opaqueBackground Use After Free

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Adobe Flash opaqueBackground Use After Free

Disclosed
07/06/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits an use after free on Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability, discovered by Hacking Team and made public as part of the July 2015 data leak, was described as an Use After Free while handling the opaqueBackground property 7 setter of the flash.display.DisplayObject class. This module is an early release tested on: Windows XP SP3, IE8 and Flash 18.0.0.194, Windows XP SP3, IE 8 and Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows XP SP3, Firefox and Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows Vista SP2 + IE 9 and Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows Vista SP2 + Firefox 39.0 and Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit), IE11 and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit), Firefox 38.0.5 and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.194, Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit), IE9 and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit), Firefox and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.194, Windows 8.1 (32-bit), IE11 and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.194, windows 8.1 (32-bit), Firefox and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.203, Windows 8.1 (32-bit), Firefox and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.160 and Windows 8.1 (32-bit), Firefox and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.194 Windows 10 Build 10240 (32-bit) IE11, Firefox 39.0 and Adobe Flash 18.0.0.203

Author(s)

  • Unknown
  • juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

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 exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_opaque_background_uaf
msf exploit(adobe_flash_opaque_background_uaf) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(adobe_flash_opaque_background_uaf) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(adobe_flash_opaque_background_uaf) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(adobe_flash_opaque_background_uaf) > exploit

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