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Adobe Flash Player PCRE Regex Vulnerability

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Disclosed
Nov 25, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Adobe Flash Player. A compilation logic error
in the PCRE engine, specifically in the handling of the \c escape sequence when followed by
a multi-byte UTF8 character, allows arbitrary execution of PCRE bytecode.

Authors

Mark Brand
sinn3r [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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