User Profile Arbitrary Junction Creation Local Privilege Elevation
Description
The user profile service, identified as ProfSrv, is vulnerable to a local privilege elevation vulnerability in its CreateDirectoryJunction() function due to a lack of appropriate checks on the directory structure of the junctions it tries to link together. Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to plant a malicious DLL in a system directory and then trigger a UAC prompt to cause this DLL to be loaded and executed by ProfSrv as the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM user. Note that this bug was originally identified as CVE-2021-34484 and was subsequently patched a second time as CVE-2022-21919, however both patches were found to be insufficient. This bug is a patch bypass for CVE-2022-21919 and at the time of publishing, has not yet been patched, though plans are in place to patch it as CVE-2022-26904. It is important to note that the credentials supplied for the second user to log in as in this exploit must be those of a normal non-admin user and these credentials must also corralate with a user who has already logged in at least once before. Additionally the current user running the exploit must have UAC set to the highest level, aka "Always Notify Me When", in order for the code to be executed as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Note however that "Always Notify Me When" is the default UAC setting on common Windows installs, so this would only affect instances where this setting has been changed either manually or as part of the installation process.
Author(s)
- KLINIX5
- Grant Willcox
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_26904_superprofile
msf exploit(cve_2022_26904_superprofile) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(cve_2022_26904_superprofile) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(cve_2022_26904_superprofile) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(cve_2022_26904_superprofile) > exploit
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