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ICONICS WebHMI ActiveX Buffer Overflow

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ICONICS WebHMI ActiveX Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
05/05/2011
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in ICONICS WebHMI's ActiveX control. By supplying a long string of data to the 'SetActiveXGUID' parameter, GenVersion.dll fails to do any proper bounds checking before this input is copied onto the stack, which causes a buffer overflow, and results arbitrary code execution under the context of the user.

Author(s)

  • Scoot Bell <scott.bell@security-assessment.com>
  • Blair Strang <blair.strang@security-assessment.com>
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

Development

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

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