Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-1463 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Alt-N Webadmin 2.0.0/2.0.1/2.0.2

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
alt-n
CWE-20
nessus
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2003-12-31
Updated: 2024-11-20

Summary

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Alt-N Technologies WebAdmin 2.0.0 through 2.0.2 allows remote attackers with administrator privileges to (1) determine the installation path by reading the contents of the Name parameter in a link, and (2) read arbitrary files via an absolute path in the Name parameter.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Microsoft
1
Application
Alt-N
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionAlt-N WebAdmin 2.0.x Remote File Viewing Vulnerability. CVE-2003-1463. Remote exploit for cgi platform
    idEDB-ID:22541
    last seen2016-02-02
    modified2003-04-25
    published2003-04-25
    reporter[email protected]
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/22541/
    titleAlt-N WebAdmin 2.0.x - Remote File Viewing Vulnerability
  • descriptionAlt-N WebAdmin 2.0.x Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability. CVE-2003-1463. Remote exploit for cgi platform
    idEDB-ID:22542
    last seen2016-02-02
    modified2003-04-25
    published2003-04-25
    reporter[email protected]
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/22542/
    titleAlt-N WebAdmin 2.0.x - Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability

Nessus

NASL familyCGI abuses
NASL idWEBADMIN.NASL
descriptionwebadmin.dll was found on the web server. Old versions of this CGI suffered from numerous problems: - installation path disclosure - directory traversal, allowing anybody with administrative permission on WebAdmin to read any file - buffer overflow, allowing anybody to run arbitrary code on the server with SYSTEM privileges. Note that no attack was performed, and the version number was not checked, so this might be a false alert
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id11771
published2003-06-24
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/11771
titleAlt-N WebAdmin Multiple Vulnerabilities
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

# References:
# http://www.kamborio.com/?Section=Articles&Mode=select&ID=55
#
# From: "Mark Litchfield" <[email protected]>
# To: [email protected], [email protected],
#   [email protected]
# Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:22:21 -0700
# Subject: Remote Buffer Overrun WebAdmin.exe
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(11771);
  script_version("1.28");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0471", "CVE-2003-1463");
  script_bugtraq_id(7438, 7439, 8024);

  script_name(english:"Alt-N WebAdmin Multiple Vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for the presence of webadmin.dll");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:'synopsis', value:"The remote CGI is vulnerable to multiple flaws.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:'description', value:
"webadmin.dll was found on the web server. Old versions of this CGI
suffered from numerous problems: - installation path disclosure -
directory traversal, allowing anybody with administrative permission
on WebAdmin to read any file - buffer overflow, allowing anybody to
run arbitrary code on the server with SYSTEM privileges.

Note that no attack was performed, and the version number was not
checked, so this might be a false alert");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:'see_also', value:"https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105647081418155&w=2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:'see_also', value:'https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/319735');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:'solution', value:"Upgrade to Alt-N WebAdmin 2.0.5 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Alt-N WebAdmin USER Buffer Overflow');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(20);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2003/06/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2003/06/24");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses");

  script_dependencie("http_version.nasl", "find_service1.nasl", "no404.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Settings/ParanoidReport");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

port = get_http_port(default:80);
res = is_cgi_installed3(port:port, item:"webadmin.dll");
if (res) security_hole(port);

References