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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Unquoted service-path exploitation


In this recipe, we are going to exploiting and gaining the additional privileges of a high-level user over an unquoted service path. First, let us understand what an unquoted service path is. What we are talking about is the path related to the service binary that is specified/configured without quotes. This specifically works only when a low-privilege user has been given access to the system drive. This generally happens in corporate networks where a user is given exception to add files.Let us have a look at the following screenshot to better understand this problem:

If we look at the path to the executable, it is specified without quotes. In this case, the execution method of Windows can be bypassed. When the path has a space in between, and is not specified in quotes, Windows basically executes in the following manner:

    C:\Program.exe
    C:\Program\FilesSome.exe
    C:\Program\FilesSome\FolderService.exe

In the preceding situation, the Foxit Cloud...

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