Vulnerability Details : CVE-2013-0008

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-0008

Metasploit modules for CVE-2013-0008

• MS13-005 HWND_BROADCAST Low to Medium Integrity Privilege Escalation

  Disclosure Date : 2012-11-27

  exploit/windows/local/ms13_005_hwnd_broadcast

  Due to a problem with isolating window broadcast messages in the Windows kernel, an attacker can broadcast commands from a lower Integrity Level process to a higher Integrity Level process, thereby effecting a privilege escalation. This issue affects Windows Vista, 7, 8, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, and RT. Note that spawning a command prompt with the shortcut key combination Win+Shift+# does not work in Vista, so the attacker will have to check if the user is already running a command prompt and set SPAWN_PROMPT false. Three exploit techniques are available with this module. The WEB technique will execute a powershell encoded payload from a Web location. The FILE technique will drop an executable to the file system, set it to medium integrity and execute it. The TYPE technique will attempt to execute a powershell encoded payload directly from the comm

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CVSS scores for CVE-2013-0008

CWE ids for CVE-2013-0008

• CWE-264
  Assigned by: [email protected] (Primary)

References for CVE-2013-0008

Products affected by CVE-2013-0008