Windows Manage Change Password - Metasploit

This page contains detailed information about how to use the post/windows/manage/change_password metasploit module. For list of all metasploit modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.

Module Overview

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Name: Windows Manage Change Password
Module: post/windows/manage/change_password
Source code: modules/post/windows/manage/change_password.rb
Disclosure date: -
Last modification time: 2021-10-06 13:43:31 +0000
Supported architecture(s): -
Supported platform(s): Windows
Target service / protocol: -
Target network port(s): -
List of CVEs: -

This module will attempt to change the password of the targeted account. The typical usage is to change a newly created account's password on a remote host to avoid the error, 'System error 1907 has occurred,' which is caused when the account policy enforces a password change before the next login.

Module Ranking and Traits

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Module Ranking:

• normal: The exploit is otherwise reliable, but depends on a specific version and can't (or doesn't) reliably autodetect. More information about ranking can be found here.

Basic Usage

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There are two ways to execute this post module.

From the Meterpreter prompt

The first is by using the "run" command at the Meterpreter prompt. It allows you to run the post module against that specific session:

meterpreter > run post/windows/manage/change_password

From the msf prompt

The second is by using the "use" command at the msf prompt. You will have to figure out which session ID to set manually. To list all session IDs, you can use the "sessions" command.

msf > use post/windows/manage/change_password
msf post(change_password) > show options
    ... show and set options ...
msf post(change_password) > set SESSION session-id
msf post(change_password) > exploit

If you wish to run the post against all sessions from framework, here is how:

1 - Create the following resource script:

framework.sessions.each_pair do |sid, session|
  run_single("use post/windows/manage/change_password")
  run_single("set SESSION #{sid}")
  run_single("run")
end

2 - At the msf prompt, execute the above resource script:

msf > resource path-to-resource-script

Required Options

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• SESSION: The session to run this module on.

• SMBUser: Username to change password of

• OLD_PASSWORD: Original password

• NEW_PASSWORD: New password

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Msfconsole Usage

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Here is how the windows/manage/change_password post exploitation module looks in the msfconsole:

msf6 > use post/windows/manage/change_password

msf6 post(windows/manage/change_password) > show info

       Name: Windows Manage Change Password
     Module: post/windows/manage/change_password
   Platform: Windows
       Arch: 
       Rank: Normal

Provided by:
  Ben Campbell <[email protected]>

Compatible session types:
  Meterpreter

Basic options:
  Name          Current Setting  Required  Description
  ----          ---------------  --------  -----------
  NEW_PASSWORD                   yes       New password
  OLD_PASSWORD                   yes       Original password
  SESSION                        yes       The session to run this module on.
  SMBDomain                      no        Domain or Host to change password on, if not set will use the current login domain
  SMBUser                        yes       Username to change password of

Description:
  This module will attempt to change the password of the targeted 
  account. The typical usage is to change a newly created account's 
  password on a remote host to avoid the error, 'System error 1907 has 
  occurred,' which is caused when the account policy enforces a 
  password change before the next login.

Module Options

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This is a complete list of options available in the windows/manage/change_password post exploitation module:

msf6 post(windows/manage/change_password) > show options

Module options (post/windows/manage/change_password):

   Name          Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----          ---------------  --------  -----------
   NEW_PASSWORD                   yes       New password
   OLD_PASSWORD                   yes       Original password
   SESSION                        yes       The session to run this module on.
   SMBDomain                      no        Domain or Host to change password on, if not set will use the current login domain
   SMBUser                        yes       Username to change password of

Advanced Options

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Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the windows/manage/change_password post exploitation module:

msf6 post(windows/manage/change_password) > show advanced

Module advanced options (post/windows/manage/change_password):

   Name       Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----       ---------------  --------  -----------
   VERBOSE    false            no        Enable detailed status messages
   WORKSPACE                   no        Specify the workspace for this module

Post Actions

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This is a list of all post exploitation actions which the windows/manage/change_password module can do:

msf6 post(windows/manage/change_password) > show actions

Post actions:

   Name  Description
   ----  -----------

Evasion Options

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Here is the full list of possible evasion options supported by the windows/manage/change_password post exploitation module in order to evade defenses (e.g. Antivirus, EDR, Firewall, NIDS etc.):

msf6 post(windows/manage/change_password) > show evasion

Module evasion options:

   Name  Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----  ---------------  --------  -----------

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Error Messages

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This module may fail with the following error messages:

Check for the possible causes from the code snippets below found in the module source code. This can often times help in identifying the root cause of the problem.

System error 1907 has occurred,

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "System error 1907 has occurred," error message:

11:	        info,
12:	        'Name' => "Windows Manage Change Password",
13:	        'Description' => %q{
14:	          This module will attempt to change the password of the targeted account.
15:	          The typical usage is to change a newly created account's password on a
16:	          remote host to avoid the error, 'System error 1907 has occurred,' which
17:	          is caused when the account policy enforces a password change before the
18:	          next login.
19:	        },
20:	        'License' => MSF_LICENSE,
21:	        'Platform' => ['win'],

This module requires a native Windows payload that supports Railgun.

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "This module requires a native Windows payload that supports Railgun." error message:

34:	    )
35:	  end
36:	
37:	  def run
38:	    unless client.railgun
39:	      print_error('This module requires a native Windows payload that supports Railgun.')
40:	      return
41:	    end
42:	
43:	    domain = datastore['SMBDomain']
44:	    username = datastore['SMBUser']

ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED" error message:

52:	      new_password
53:	    )
54:	
55:	    case result['return']
56:	    when 0x05
57:	      err_msg = 'ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED'
58:	    when 0x56
59:	      err_msg = 'ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD'
60:	    when 0x92f
61:	      err_msg = 'NERR_InvalidComputer'
62:	    when 0x8b2

ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD" error message:

54:	
55:	    case result['return']
56:	    when 0x05
57:	      err_msg = 'ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED'
58:	    when 0x56
59:	      err_msg = 'ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD'
60:	    when 0x92f
61:	      err_msg = 'NERR_InvalidComputer'
62:	    when 0x8b2
63:	      err_msg = 'NERR_NotPrimary'
64:	    when 0x8ad

unknown error code: <RETURN>

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "unknown error code: <RETURN>" error message:

66:	    when 0x8c5
67:	      err_msg = 'NERR_PasswordTooShort'
68:	    when 0
69:	      print_good('Password change successful.')
70:	    else
71:	      err_msg = "unknown error code: #{result['return']}"
72:	    end
73:	
74:	    if err_msg
75:	      print_error("Password change failed, #{err_msg}.")
76:	    end

Password change failed, <ERR_MSG>.

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Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Password change failed, <ERR_MSG>." error message:

68:	    when 0
69:	      print_good('Password change successful.')
70:	    else
71:	      err_msg = "unknown error code: #{result['return']}"
72:	    end
73:	
74:	    if err_msg
75:	      print_error("Password change failed, #{err_msg}.")
76:	    end
77:	  end
78:	end

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Related Pull Requests

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• #8716 Merged Pull Request: Print_Status -> Print_Good (And OCD bits 'n bobs)
• #8338 Merged Pull Request: Fix msf/core and self.class msftidy warnings
• #6655 Merged Pull Request: use MetasploitModule as a class name
• #6648 Merged Pull Request: Change metasploit class names
• #3286 Merged Pull Request: Description and print_status fixes for release
• #3265 Merged Pull Request: Windows Post Manage Change Password

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See Also

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Check also the following modules related to this module:

• post/windows/manage/add_user
• post/windows/manage/archmigrate
• post/windows/manage/clone_proxy_settings
• post/windows/manage/delete_user
• post/windows/manage/dell_memory_protect
• post/windows/manage/download_exec
• post/windows/manage/driver_loader
• post/windows/manage/enable_rdp
• post/windows/manage/enable_support_account
• post/windows/manage/exec_powershell
• post/windows/manage/execute_dotnet_assembly
• post/windows/manage/forward_pageant
• post/windows/manage/hashcarve
• post/windows/manage/ie_proxypac
• post/windows/manage/inject_ca
• post/windows/manage/inject_host
• post/windows/manage/install_python
• post/windows/manage/install_ssh
• post/windows/manage/killav
• post/windows/manage/migrate
• post/windows/manage/mssql_local_auth_bypass
• post/windows/manage/multi_meterpreter_inject
• post/windows/manage/nbd_server
• post/windows/manage/peinjector
• post/windows/manage/persistence_exe
• post/windows/manage/portproxy
• post/windows/manage/pptp_tunnel
• post/windows/manage/priv_migrate
• post/windows/manage/pxeexploit
• post/windows/manage/reflective_dll_inject
• post/windows/manage/remove_ca
• post/windows/manage/remove_host
• post/windows/manage/rid_hijack
• post/windows/manage/rollback_defender_signatures
• post/windows/manage/rpcapd_start
• post/windows/manage/run_as
• post/windows/manage/run_as_psh
• post/windows/manage/sdel
• post/windows/manage/shellcode_inject
• post/windows/manage/sshkey_persistence
• post/windows/manage/sticky_keys
• post/windows/manage/vmdk_mount
• post/windows/manage/vss
• post/windows/manage/vss_create
• post/windows/manage/vss_list
• post/windows/manage/vss_mount
• post/windows/manage/vss_set_storage
• post/windows/manage/vss_storage
• post/windows/manage/wdigest_caching
• post/windows/manage/webcam

Authors

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• Ben Campbell

Version

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This page has been produced using Metasploit Framework version 6.1.24-dev. For more modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.

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