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CVE-2013-10046 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Agnitum Outpost Internet Security 8.1. The issue is in the privileged acs.exe component, which exposes a named pipe that accepts unauthenticated commands from a local user. Due to a directory traversal weakness in the pipe protocol, an attacker can cause the service to load a DLL from an attacker-controlled path rather than a trusted location. Because the DLL is loaded and executed by the privileged service, arbitrary code runs in the security context of the service, i.e., SYSTEM.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module (agnitum_outpost_acs.rb) that exploits a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2013-10046) in Agnitum Outpost Internet Security 8.1 on Windows. The exploit abuses a directory traversal flaw in the acs.exe component, accessible via the \\.\pipe\acsipc_server named pipe, to load and execute an arbitrary DLL with SYSTEM privileges. The module is operational and requires a Meterpreter session on a vulnerable system. It drops a malicious DLL to a writable directory (defaulting to %TEMP%), then uses the named pipe to instruct acs.exe to load the DLL, resulting in privilege escalation. The code is well-structured, leverages Metasploit's post-exploitation and file handling libraries, and is designed for reliable exploitation on supported targets.
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