Win32k ConsoleControl Offset Confusion
Description
A vulnerability exists within win32k that can be leveraged by an attacker to escalate privileges to those of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The flaw exists in how the WndExtra field of a window can be manipulated into being treated as an offset despite being populated by an attacker-controlled value. This can be leveraged to achieve an out of bounds write operation, eventually leading to privilege escalation. This flaw was originally identified as CVE-2021-1732 and was patched by Microsoft on February 9th, 2021. In early 2022, a technique to bypass the patch was identified and assigned CVE-2022-21882. The root cause is is the same for both vulnerabilities. This exploit combines the patch bypass with the original exploit to function on a wider range of Windows 10 targets.
Author(s)
- BITTER APT
- JinQuan
- MaDongZe
- TuXiaoYi
- LiHao
- L4ys
- KaLendsi
- Spencer McIntyre
Platform
Windows
Architectures
x64
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/cve_2022_21882_win32k
msf exploit(cve_2022_21882_win32k) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(cve_2022_21882_win32k) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(cve_2022_21882_win32k) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(cve_2022_21882_win32k) > exploit
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