Document Audience: PUBLIC
Document ID: 102779
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Sun Ray Server Software Admin GUI
Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights
Reserved
Update Date: Tue Jan 23 00:00:00 MST 2007
Status Issued
Description
Sun(sm) Alert Notification
* Sun Alert ID: 102779
* Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in the Sun Ray Server Software
Admin GUI
* Category: Security
*
Product: Sun Ray Server Software 3.0, Sun Ray Server Software 2.0
* BugIDs: 4950642
* Avoidance: Patch
* State: Resolved
* Date Released: 23-Jan-2007
* Date Closed: 23-Jan-2007
* Date Modified:
1. Impact
Due to a security vulnerability in the Sun Ray Server Software, an
unprivileged local user may be able to intercept the Sun Ray
administrator's (utadmin) password when the administrator logs in to the
Sun Ray Administration Tool.
In addition, a user who obtains read access to the Sun Ray private web
server's logfile, or to a similar logfile on a proxy server, can extract
the Sun Ray administrator's (utadmin) password. This would allow the
user to gain unauthorized access to the Sun Ray Server Software with the
privileges of the utadmin user.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Sun Ray Server Software 2.0 (for Solaris 8, 9) without patch
114880-10
(http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114880-10-1)
* Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 (for Solaris 8, 9, 10) without patch
118979-02
(http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118979-02-1)
Linux Platform
* Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 (for JDS R2, RHELAS 3.0, SLES 8.0)
without patch 119836-02
(http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119836-02-1)
To determine the version of the Sun Ray Server Software on a Solaris
system, the following command can be run:
# /usr/bin/pkginfo -l SUNWuto | grep -i version
VERSION: 3.1_32,REV=2005.08.24.08.55
To determine the version of Sun Ray Server Software on a Linux system,
the following command can be run:
# /bin/rpm -q SUNWuto
SUNWuto-3.1-32.21
Notes:
1. Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 and Sun Ray Server Software 3.1.1 are
not affected by this issue.
2. This issue can occur both when the Sun Ray web administration GUI
is configured to use SSL, and when it is configured not to use SSL.
3. Sun Ray Server Software 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 will not be
evaluated regarding the potential impact of the issue described in this
Sun Alert document.
3. Symptoms
If the Sun Ray server has been affected by the issue described in this
Sun Alert, the password may appear in the log file of the web server
that is in use.
To determine if a Sun Ray server has been affected by this issue, check
the web server logfile as follows:
1. Open the web server logfile in an editor.
2. Use the editor's functionality to search for the Sun Ray
admininistrator's (utadmin) password.
Note: Do not use "grep" to search for the utadmin password, as this
might cause the password to be visible in the process list for a very
short time, and to be logged to your shell's history.
On Sun Ray Server Software 3.0, the logfile location is defined in
httpd.conf. The location of the httpd.conf file is stored in the
utadmin.conf file:
On Solaris:
# /usr/bin/grep http.cfile /etc/opt/SUNWut/utadmin.conf
admin.http.cfile = /etc/apache/httpd.conf
In httpd.conf:
CustomLog /var/apache/logs/access_log common
ErrorLog /var/apache/logs/error_log
On Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Release 3:
# /bin/grep http.cfile /etc/opt/SUNWut/utadmin.conf
admin.http.cfile = /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
In httpd.conf:
CustomLog logs/access_log common
ErrorLog logs/error_log
The default location of the logfiles is "/var/log/httpd/access_log" and
"/var/log/httpd/error_log".
On SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8:
# /bin/grep http.cfile /etc/opt/SUNWut/utadmin.conf
admin.http.cfile = /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
In httpd.conf:
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
The default location of the logfiles is "/var/log/httpd/access_log" and
"/var/log/httpd/error_log".
On JDS 2:
JDS 2 does not provide an Apache web server by default. Use the
following to identify the location of the httpd.conf:
# grep http.cfile /etc/opt/SUNWut/utadmin.conf
On Sun Ray Server Software 2.0, the web server logfiles are located in
the following directory:
/var/opt/SUNWut/http/utadmin/websites/default_site/logs/
Solution Summary
4. Relief/Workaround
To work around the described issue, do the following (use the command
line tools rather than the Sun Ray web administration GUI):
1. To ensure that nobody else uses the web administration GUI, remove
the execute permissions from the "main" binary:
# chmod a-x /opt/SUNWut/cgi-bin/main
To undo the workaround:
# chmod a+x /opt/SUNWut/cgi-bin/main
2. Ensure that only the root user has read access rights to the web
server logfiles by changing the permissions of those files using a
command such as chmod(1) as required. By default:
* with Sun Ray Server Software 3.0/Solaris, using Solaris bundled
Apache, the web server logfiles are world-readable.
* with Sun Ray Server Software 3.0/Linux, using Apache, the
directory containing the web server logfiles is accessible for the root
user only.
* with Sun Ray Server Software 2.0 and earlier, the web server
logfiles are accessible for the root user and group "other" only.
3. Change the Sun Ray administrator's password by doing the following:
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utpw
Enter new UT admin password:
Re-enter new UT admin password:
Enter old UT admin password:
Changing LDAP password...
Done.
Changing password file...
Done.
Note: If this server is part of a failover configuration, please run
utpw(1M) on all servers.
4. If you have used the Sun Ray administrator's password for other
purposes, change that password as well.
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Sun Ray Server Software 2.0 (for Solaris 8, 9) with patch
114880-10 or later
* Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 (for Solaris 8, 9, 10) with patch
118979-02 or later
Linux Platform
* Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 (for JDS R2, RHELAS 3.0, SLES 8.0)
with patch 119836-02 or later
Note: The above patch revisions do not clean up old logfiles, and they
do not re-render pages which have already been displayed in your
browser. After patch installation it is recommended that the
administrator password be changed (using the method described in section
4, Relief/Workaround). In addition, before logging into the Sun Ray web
administration GUI, users should either restart the browser or hit
shift-reload on the GUI's login screen.
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