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VirtualBox Guest Additions VBoxGuest.sys Privilege Escalation

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VirtualBox Guest Additions VBoxGuest.sys Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
07/15/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

A vulnerability within the VBoxGuest driver allows an attacker to inject memory they control into an arbitrary location they define. This can be used by an attacker to overwrite HalDispatchTable+0x4 and execute arbitrary code by subsequently calling NtQueryIntervalProfile on Windows XP SP3 systems. This has been tested with VBoxGuest Additions up to 4.3.10r93012.

Author(s)

  • Matt Bergin <level@korelogic.com>
  • Jay Smith <jsmith@korelogic.com>

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

Development

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

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