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SonicWALL Aventail epi.dll AuthCredential Format String

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SonicWALL Aventail epi.dll AuthCredential Format String

Disclosed
08/19/2010
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a format string vulnerability within version 10.0.4.x and 10.5.1 of the SonicWALL Aventail SSL-VPN Endpoint Interrogator/Installer ActiveX control (epi.dll). By calling the 'AuthCredential' method with a specially crafted Unicode format string, an attacker can cause memory corruption and execute arbitrary code. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be possible to indirectly re-use existing stack data for more reliable exploitation. This is due to several particulars about this vulnerability. First, the format string must be a Unicode string, which uses two bytes per character. Second, the buffer is allocated on the stack using the 'alloca' function. As such, each additional format specifier (%x) will add four more bytes to the size allocated. This results in the inability to move the read pointer outside of the buffer. Further testing showed that using specifiers that pop more than four bytes does not help. Any number of format specifiers will result in accessing the same value within the buffer. NOTE: It may be possible to leverage the vulnerability to leak memory contents. However, that has not been fully investigated at this time.

Author(s)

  • Nikolas Sotiriu
  • jduck <jduck@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/browser/aventail_epi_activex
msf exploit(aventail_epi_activex) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(aventail_epi_activex) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(aventail_epi_activex) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(aventail_epi_activex) > exploit

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