Windows Escalate NtUserLoadKeyboardLayoutEx Privilege Escalation
Description
This module exploits the keyboard layout vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet. When processing specially crafted keyboard layout files (DLLs), the Windows kernel fails to validate that an array index is within the bounds of the array. By loading a specially crafted keyboard layout, an attacker can execute code in Ring 0.
Author(s)
- Ruben Santamarta
- jduck <jduck@metasploit.com>
Platform
Windows
Development
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