Python version 3.5.2 suffers from a dll hijacking vulnerability.
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Aloha,
*python-3.5.2.exe* loads and executes fwbase.dll from its "application
directory".
For software downloaded with a web browser the applicationdirectory is
typically the user's "Downloads" directory: see <
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2008/09/carpet-bombing-and-directory-poisoning.html
>,
<http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/02/downloads-folder-binary-planting.html
>
and <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/134> for "prior art" about
this well-known and well-documented vulnerability.
If an attacker places one of the above named DLL in the user's "Downloads"
directory (for example per "drive-by download" or "social engineering")
this vulnerability becomes a remote code execution.
Proof of concept/demonstration:
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1. Create malicious dll file and save it as fwbase.dll in your "Downloads"
directory.
2. Download Windows x86 executable installer from
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-352/
and save it in your "Downloads" directory.
3. Execute python-3.5.2.exe from your "Downloads" directory.
4. Malicious dll file gets executed.
Chao!!
Himanshu Mehta