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HP Data Protector Create New Folder Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Mar 12, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in HP Data Protector 5. The overflow
occurs in the creation of new folders, where the name of the folder is handled in a
insecure way by the dpwindtb.dll component. While the overflow occurs in the stack, the
folder name is split in fragments in this insecure copy. Because of this, this module
uses egg hunting to search a non corrupted copy of the payload in the heap. On the other
hand the overflowed buffer is stored in a frame protected by stack cookies, because of
this SEH handler overwrite is used.

Any user of HP Data Protector Express is able to create new folders and trigger the
vulnerability. Moreover, in the default installation the 'Admin' user has an empty
password. Successful exploitation will lead to code execution with the privileges of
the "dpwinsdr.exe" (HP Data Protector Express Domain Server Service) process, which
runs as SYSTEM by default.

Authors

juan vazquez [email protected]
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/misc/hp_dataprotector_new_folder
    msf exploit(hp_dataprotector_new_folder) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(hp_dataprotector_new_folder) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(hp_dataprotector_new_folder) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(hp_dataprotector_new_folder) > exploit
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