Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in wab.exe 6.00.2900.5512 in Windows Address Book 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 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wab32res.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a Windows Address Book (WAB), VCF (aka vCard), or P7C file, aka "Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability." NOTE: the codebase for this product may overlap the codebase for the product referenced in CVE-2010-3143.
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.
Exploit-DB 3
- Microsoft Address Book 6.00.2900.5512 - 'wab32res.dll' DLL Hijacking EDB-14745 · local · Aug 25, 2010 · verified
- Microsoft Windows - Contacts 'wab32res.dll' DLL Hijacking EDB-14778 · local · Aug 25, 2010 · verified
- Microsoft Windows 7 - 'wab32res.dll wab.exe' DLL Hijacking EDB-14733 · local · Aug 24, 2010
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- TA10-348A third-party-advisory
- 14745 exploit
- 41050 third-party-advisory
- MS10-096 vendor-advisory
- 1024878 vdb-entry
- http://www.attackvector.org/new-dll-hijacking-exploits-many/
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12352 vdb-entry signature