CVE-2016-7255
HIGH KEV RANSOMWAREMicrosoft Windows - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2016-7255 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added November 3, 2021, with confirmed use in ransomware campaigns. EIP tracks 10 public exploits from researchers including Rick Larabee, IOactive, TinySec.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a Windows kernel vulnerability (CVE-2016-7255) to achieve local privilege escalation by manipulating page table entries and executing shellcode to replace the token of a target process with that of the SYSTEM process.
Description
The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607, and Windows Server 2016 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Exploits (10)
This exploit leverages a Windows kernel vulnerability (CVE-2016-7255) to achieve local privilege escalation by manipulating page table entries and executing shellcode to replace the token of a target process with that of the SYSTEM process.
This is a functional proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2016-7255, which leverages a side-channel attack to derandomize the Windows 10 kernel's ASLR by measuring memory access times to infer PML4 self-referential entries.
This exploit demonstrates CVE-2016-7255, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows. It manipulates window handles and keyboard inputs to trigger a use-after-free condition, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution.
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2016-7255, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows. The exploit leverages a bit-flip corruption in window objects to achieve arbitrary kernel memory read/write, ultimately stealing the SYSTEM token for privilege escalation.
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2016-7255, demonstrating privilege escalation via page table manipulation in Windows. The exploit leverages the HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) to achieve arbitrary code execution in ring-0.
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2016-7255, a Windows kernel vulnerability that allows local privilege escalation. The exploit leverages page table manipulation to achieve arbitrary kernel memory read/write, ultimately escalating privileges to SYSTEM.
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2016-7255, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows. The code includes both x86 and x64 implementations that leverage kernel memory manipulation techniques to escalate privileges.
This repository contains a functional proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2016-7255, a Write What Where vulnerability in Windows 7 x64 SP1. The exploit manipulates window handles and keyboard events to trigger the vulnerability.
The repository contains no exploit code or technical details, only a vague description of CVE-2016-7255 and a reference to MS16-135. The README lacks depth and includes irrelevant personal information, suggesting it may be a lure.
This repository contains documentation and scripts for generating structured vulnerability information, including CVE listings and README files for various Windows exploits. It does not include actual exploit code for CVE-2016-7255 but provides metadata and organizational tools.
References (12)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H