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iPass Mobile Client Service Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Mar 12, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

The named pipe, \IPEFSYSPCPIPE, can be accessed by normal users to interact
with the iPass service. The service provides a LaunchAppSysMode command which
allows to execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM.

Author

h0ng10

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

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