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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Anti-Exploit Update Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Dec 16, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the update functionality of
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware consumer before 2.0.3 and Malwarebytes
Anti-Exploit consumer 1.03.1.1220.
Due to the lack of proper update package validation, a man-in-the-middle
(MITM) attacker could execute arbitrary code by spoofing the update server
data-cdn.mbamupdates.com and uploading an executable. This module has
been tested successfully with MBAM 2.0.2.1012 and MBAE 1.03.1.1220.

Authors

Yonathan Klijnsma
Gabor Seljan
todb [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/malwarebytes_update_exec
    msf exploit(malwarebytes_update_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(malwarebytes_update_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(malwarebytes_update_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(malwarebytes_update_exec) > exploit
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