Title: Microsoft Windows Media Center Library Parsing RCE Vuln aka "self-executing" MCL file (CVE-2015-6131)
Software Vendor: Microsoft
Software version : MS Windows Media Center latest version on any Windows OS.
Software Vendor Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com
CVE: CVE-2015-6131
Exploit Author: Eduardo Braun Prado
Vulnerability oficial discoverer: Zhang YunHai of NSFOCUS Security Team
date: december 8, 2015
Vulnerability description:
Windows Media Center contains a remote code execution vulnerability because it allows "MCL" files to reference themselves as HTML pages, which will be parsed inside Windows Media Center window, in the context of the local machine security zone of Internet Explorer browser. This in turn allows execution of arbitrary code using eg. ADO ActiveX Objects. AKA "self-executing" MCL files.
exploit code below:
----------- self-exec-1.mcl ------------------------------------
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-----Create-recordsetfile.hta --------------