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Dell DBUtil_2_3.sys IOCTL memmove

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Disclosed
May 4, 2021
Created
May 15, 2021

Description

The DBUtil_2_3.sys driver distributed by Dell exposes an unprotected IOCTL interface that can be abused by
an attacker read and write kernel-mode memory.

Authors

Kasif Dekel
SentinelLabs
Spencer McIntyre

Platform

Windows

Architectures

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/windows/local/cve_2021_21551_dbutil_memmove
    msf exploit(cve_2021_21551_dbutil_memmove) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(cve_2021_21551_dbutil_memmove) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(cve_2021_21551_dbutil_memmove) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(cve_2021_21551_dbutil_memmove) > exploit
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