Windows Escalate UAC Protection Bypass (Via dot net profiler)
Description
Microsoft Windows allows for the automatic loading of a profiling COM object during the launch of a CLR process based on certain environment variables ostensibly to monitor execution. In this case, we abuse the profiler by pointing to a payload DLL that will be launched as the profiling thread. This thread will run at the permission level of the calling process, so an auto-elevating process will launch the DLL with elevated permissions. In this case, we use gpedit.msc as the auto-elevated CLR process, but others would work, too.
Author(s)
- Casey Smith
- "Stefan Kanthak" <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de>
- bwatters-r7
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/local/bypassuac_dotnet_profiler
msf exploit(bypassuac_dotnet_profiler) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(bypassuac_dotnet_profiler) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(bypassuac_dotnet_profiler) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(bypassuac_dotnet_profiler) > exploit
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