CVE-2010-2729

Description

The Print Spooler service in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, when printer sharing is enabled, does not properly validate spooler access permissions, which allows remote attackers to create files in a system directory, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by sending a crafted print request over RPC, as exploited in the wild in September 2010, aka "Print Spooler Service Impersonation Vulnerability."

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

MS10-061 Microsoft Print Spooler Service Impersonation Vulnerability
exploit/windows/smb/ms10_061_spoolss

Exploit-DB 1

Microsoft Windows - Print Spooler Service Impersonation (MS10-061) (Metasploit) EDB-16361 · remote · Feb 17, 2011 · verified

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References

MS10-061 vendor-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7358 vdb-entry signature