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DisplayLink Core Software 8.2.1956 DLL Hijacking

DisplayLink Core Software 8.2.1956 DLL Hijacking
Posted Jun 1, 2018
Authored by Aleix Sala Bach

DisplayLink Core Software version 8.2.1956 suffers from a dll hijacking vulnerability.

tags | advisory
systems | windows
SHA-256 | 5afa00e1295281d63da0945dcbcaaa675aba31f8d1c02f54cbf304f77e5260ba

DisplayLink Core Software 8.2.1956 DLL Hijacking

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Hi all,

During installation or update of DisplayLink Core Software 8.2.1956 if it
is executed as SYSTEM, as is the case on many companies,binary cl_1956.exe
(Cleaner Application) is extracted to "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" and later
executed as SYSTEM using the command line: "C:\Windows\TEMP\cl_1956.exe"
-min -maxVersion 8.2.1956.0.

This path "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" is user writable, at least in win10, and
cl_1956.exe is vulnerable to DLL hijack. It loads several dll which are not
known_dll and you can at least hijack wtsapi32.dll to execute code in the
process context.

An unprivileged local user can copy a self compiled dll with name
wtsapi32.dll to %SYSTEMROOT%\Temp, and gain SYSTEM privileges when
cl_1956.exe loads and executes it.

*Reference*:
https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/471.html

*Timeline*
08/03/2018 Vulnerability report sent to the vendor

12/03/2018 Vendor started internal investigation and assigned track
number 27488

04/04/2018 Vendor released first dev version trying to correct the bug

02/05/2018 Vendor released second dev trying to patch the
vulnerability

14/05/2018 Vendor released "Release Candidate" with bug fixed.
.
29/05/2018 Vendor fixed installed can be downloaded from their
website ( http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/windows )

01/06/2018 Report published
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Aleix Sala Bach


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