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Makaveli

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[guidance needed] Am I doing it wrong?

« on: February 12, 2013, 01:26:06 PM »

Hey fellas,

Can you please explain smth to me?

There is this vulnerability:

Code:

Code:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020

It explicitly says that it allows for remote code execution. However when I search in exploit-db for that CVE I get an exploit which does DoS on my lab and crashes the system, and it's also categorized as DOS in metasploit. So how is this arbitrary code? All over the net when looking at notes of this vulnerability, it specifically says the attacker who exploits it can create users, get information etc.

Am I missing something?
I am trying to get shell..ultimately


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DragonGorge

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Re: [guidance needed] Am I doing it wrong?

« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2013, 01:50:55 PM »

IIRC, this is a vulnerability that hasn't had an exploit (to do what you want) written for it (yet).

I seem to recall seeing exploits that claimed to allow remote code execution or something similar on Pastebin BUT in reality they were bogus and ended up pwning the downloader's machine.


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m0wgli

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Re: [guidance needed] Am I doing it wrong?

« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2013, 02:01:19 PM »

Quote from: DragonGorge on February 12, 2013, 01:50:55 PM

I seem to recall seeing exploits that claimed to allow remote code execution or something similar on Pastebin BUT in reality they were bogus and ended up pwning the downloader's machine.

An example of why you shouldn't run exploit code blindly: http://www.insinuator.net/tag/ms12-020/


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Re: [guidance needed] Am I doing it wrong?

« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2013, 03:54:19 PM »

The Bulletin states that the maximum impact is RCE. That just means that the conditions are such that someone could theoretically get code to run. RDP is a complex and convoluted protocol, and RCE may only be successful under obscure circumstances.

Imagine something like a buffer overflow that only overwrites one byte of EIP. Sure, you could potentially leverage that to redirect execution flow, but you'd probably win the lottery sooner. More often than not, something like that will only result in DoS, not RCE.

I'm not that familiar with the details of 12-020, but there are clearly some serious hurdles to overcome.


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Re: [guidance needed] Am I doing it wrong?

« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2013, 08:28:19 PM »

Rumors are there is a real exploit floating around.

When I looked at this to see if exploitation was possible, I started with a 2 second packet capture of the RDP protocol, saw 10K packets in wireshark and said, well effff this bug. I'm out.