#Suggestor or suggester install

mssb.xlsx LICENSE.md README.md systeminfo_1.txt. windows-exploit-suggester.py –database -mssb.xlsx –systeminfo ls Run the following command, to get the information about the missing patches. Now, we have the following files in the local machine. Place it in the folder where we have the python script. So, let’s get the output of “systeminfo” command from the target host as shown below. This tool requires the output of “systeminfo” command to look for the installed hotfix data. Though this tool reports both remote and local exploits available, I am specifically looking for local privilege escalation exploits on the target machine.

#Suggestor or suggester install

Then install the required dependencies using the command below. This tool makes our life easy by automatically downloading and saving the results into an excel spreadsheet using “-update” flag. For this reason, we need to have the security bulletin database with us to use this tool. This tool uses security bulletin database from Microsoft and checks against the hotfixes installed on the host. You should see the python script inside the extracted folder.

I am copying the zip file to my root directory to save some space on the terminal.

Kali v2.0 for running “Windows Exploit Suggester”ĭownload “Windows Exploit Suggester” tool in Kali Linux here:.

Rechecking the vulnerability using “Windows exploit Suggester”įollowing is the set up I have for this article.

Using the results to exploit a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

How “Windows Exploit Suggester” tool can be leveraged to see if the host is exploitable.