Backdoor.Win32.Curioso.zp malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
dbf38d98176488d91a7b25a36bc5800dDiscovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com (c) 2021
Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/1ae08493913b2a0c8cbcb0541da5a8bc.txt
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Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Curioso.zp
Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions
Description: The malware creates a dir with insecure permissions under c:\ drive granting change (C) permissions to the authenticated user group. Standard users can rename the executable dropped by the malware to disable it or replace it with their own executable. Then wait for a privileged user to logon to the infected machine to potentially escalate privileges.
Type: PE32
MD5: 1ae08493913b2a0c8cbcb0541da5a8bc
Vuln ID: MVID-2021-0402
Disclosure: 11/21/2021
Exploit/PoC:
C:\>cacls test
C:\test BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(ID)R
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(ID)C
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(OI)(CI)(IO)(ID)C
C:\>dir /a test
Volume in drive C has no label.
Directory of C:\test
02/17/2013 03:34 PM 733,184 svchost.exe
1 File(s) 733,184 bytes
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