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Sun Java Calendar Deserialization Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Dec 3, 2008
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a flaw in the deserialization of Calendar objects in the Sun JVM.

The payload can be either a native payload which is generated as an executable and
dropped/executed on the target or a shell from within the Java applet in the target browser.

The affected Java versions are JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16
and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier (SDK and JRE 1.3.1 are not affected).

Authors

sf [email protected]
hdm [email protected]

Platform

Java,Linux,OSX,Solaris,Windows

Architectures

java, x86, ppc

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