PCAUSA Rawether for Windows local privilege escalation

vendor:

Rawether for Windows

by:

ReWolf

7,2

CVSS

HIGH

Privilege Escalation

269

CWE

Product Name: Rawether for Windows

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: Yes

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10 x64 (TH2, RS1)

2017

PCAUSA Rawether for Windows local privilege escalation

Rawether for Windows is a framework that facilitates communication between an application and the NDIS miniport driver. It’s produced by a company named Printing Communications Assoc., Inc. (PCAUSA), which seems to be no longer operating. Exploit attached to this advisory targets 64bit version of PcaSp60.sys driver which is part of ASUS PCE-AC56 WLAN Card Utilities.

Mitigation:

Update the driver to the latest version.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#Exploit Title: PCAUSA Rawether for Windows local privilege escalation
#Date: 2017-03-15
#Exploit Author: ReWolf
#Vendor Homepage: original vendor website doesn't exist anymore
#Version: too many
#Tested on: Windows 10 x64 (TH2, RS1)

Rawether for Windows is a framework that facilitates communication between an application and the NDIS miniport driver. It’s produced by a company named Printing Communications Assoc., Inc. (PCAUSA), which seems to be no longer operating. Company websites can be still reached through web.archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20151017034756/http://www.pcausa.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20151128171809/http://www.rawether.net/

Rawether framework provides NDIS Protocol Driver similar to the NPF.SYS (part of the WinPcap). This framework is used by many different hardware vendors in their WiFi and router control applications. Exploit attached to this advisory targets 64bit version of PcaSp60.sys driver which is part of ASUS PCE-AC56 WLAN Card Utilities.

More information:
- http://blog.rewolf.pl/blog/?p=1778
- https://github.com/rwfpl/rewolf-pcausa-exploit/tree/4045cd9b45d647430d779f5b0a018a7a11d6ca2a

PoC:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/41605.zip