Exploitation Summary
CVE-2010-0232 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 3, 2022.
EIP tracks 3 public exploits from researchers including Tavis Ormandy, azorfus, Tavis Ormandy, HD Moore, code to meterpreter module, , # Port of Tavis, OJ Reeves, including a Metasploit module exploits/windows/local/ms10_015_kitrap0d.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2010-0232, explaining how the Windows NT #GP Trap Handler vulnerability allows local privilege escalation by manipulating the kernel stack. It includes root cause analysis, affected software, and mitigation strategies.
Description
The kernel in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32-bit x86 platform, does not properly validate certain BIOS calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by crafting a VDM_TIB data structure in the Thread Environment Block (TEB), and then calling the NtVdmControl function to start the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (aka NTVDM) subsystem, leading to improperly handled exceptions involving the #GP trap handler (nt!KiTrap0D), aka "Windows Kernel Exception Handler Vulnerability."
Exploits (3)
This is a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2010-0232, explaining how the Windows NT #GP Trap Handler vulnerability allows local privilege escalation by manipulating the kernel stack. It includes root cause analysis, affected software, and mitigation strategies.
This repository contains a functional local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2010-0232, targeting a vulnerability in the Windows NT kernel's NtVdmControl function. The exploit leverages the KiTrap0d vulnerability to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by manipulating the VDM subsystem.
This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2010-0232 (KiTrap0D) to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on vulnerable Windows systems (x86 only). It uses reflective DLL injection to execute the exploit payload.
References (15)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H