While processing the URL for any blacklisted XSS list like the script tag in the check_xss_blacklist function, a stack buffer overflow is possible by extending the length of the URL when accessing the web interface of the ASUS Router. To exploit it, stack pivoting technique is used before chaining up ROP gadgets to call our own custom command. In this post, we show how this can be exploited to get a reverse shell.
As part of my month-long internship at STAR Labs, I was introduced to VirtualBox and learnt much about bug hunting and triaging, root-cause analysis and exploitation. This post will detail a use-after-free bug I found during the duration of the internship, and specifics on the VM escape exploit that I wrote utilising the bug. The latest version at the point of reporting was VirtualBox 6.1.2 r135662.
Last year, I participated in the TianFu Cup competition in Chengdu, China. The chosen target was the Adobe Reader. This post will detail a use-after-free bug of JSObject. My exploit is not clean and not an optimal solution. I have finished this exploit through lots of trial and error. It involves lots of heap shaping code which I no longer remember exactly why they are there. I would highly suggest that you read the full exploit code and do the debugging yourself if necessary. This blog post was written based on a Windows 10 host with Adobe Reader.
I have been into the vulnerability research field for a while now, and VirtualBox is my very first target. I have learned a lot along the way and I hope that anyone who are interested in escaping hypervisors can find something useful from these notes. I assume that you have some basic knowledge on memory corruption, hypervisor architecture and device I/O.