Windscribe WindscribeService Named Pipe Privilege Escalation
Posted on 06 February 2020
The Windscribe VPN client application for Windows makes use of a Windows service WindscribeService.exe which exposes a named pipe \.pipeWindscribeService allowing execution of programs with elevated privileges. Windscribe versions prior to 1.82 do not validate user-supplied program names, allowing execution of arbitrary commands as SYSTEM. This Metasploit module has been tested successfully on Windscribe versions 1.80 and 1.81 on Windows 7 SP1 (x64).
