Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-3423 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Webex Communications Downloader Activexcontrol and Downloader Java

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
webex-communications
CWE-20
critical
nessus

Summary

WebEx Downloader ActiveX Control and WebEx Downloader Java before 2.1.0.0 do not validate downloaded components, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a website that activates the GpcUrlRoot and GpcIniFileName ActiveX controls to cause the client to download a DLL file. Upgrade to version 2.1.0.0.

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.

Nessus

NASL familyWindows
NASL idWEBEX_DOWNLOADER_ACTIVEX_INJECTION.NASL
descriptionThe Windows remote host contains the WebEx Downloader ActiveX control, which is used when attending or hosting a meeting using WebEx, a sharing and conferencing application for Windows. The version of this ActiveX control on the remote host reportedly allows an attacker to deliver arbitrary components to the affected host, which could later be executed subject to the privileges of the current user.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id22047
published2006-07-14
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22047
titleWebEx Downloader ActiveX Control Command Injection
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(22047);
  script_version("1.17");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-3423");
  script_bugtraq_id(18860);

  script_name(english:"WebEx Downloader ActiveX Control Command Injection");
  script_summary(english:"Checks version of the WebEx Downloader ActiveX control");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Windows host has an ActiveX control that allows for
arbitrary code execution.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Windows remote host contains the WebEx Downloader ActiveX control,
which is used when attending or hosting a meeting using WebEx, a
sharing and conferencing application for Windows.

The version of this ActiveX control on the remote host reportedly
allows an attacker to deliver arbitrary components to the affected
host, which could later be executed subject to the privileges of the
current user.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://web.archive.org/web/20071020094445/http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/226");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-021/" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?117b1e78" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to WebEx Downloader plugin 2.1.0.0 or later.");
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/07/06");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/07/14");

script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_end_attributes();


  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Windows");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("smb_hotfixes.nasl");
  script_require_keys("SMB/Registry/Enumerated");
  script_require_ports(139, 445);

  exit(0);
}


include("smb_func.inc");
include("audit.inc");


# Connect to the appropriate share.
if (!get_kb_item("SMB/Registry/Enumerated")) exit(0);
name    =  kb_smb_name();
port    =  kb_smb_transport();
login   =  kb_smb_login();
pass    =  kb_smb_password();
domain  =  kb_smb_domain();



if(! smb_session_init()) audit(AUDIT_FN_FAIL, 'smb_session_init');
rc = NetUseAdd(login:login, password:pass, domain:domain, share:"IPC$");
if (rc != 1)
{
  NetUseDel();
  exit(0);
}


# Connect to remote registry.
hklm = RegConnectRegistry(hkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE);
if (isnull(hklm))
{
  NetUseDel();
  exit(0);
}


# Check whether it's installed.
clid = "E06E2E99-0AA1-11D4-ABA6-0060082AA75C";
key = "SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{" + clid +  "}\InprocServer32";
key_h = RegOpenKey(handle:hklm, key:key, mode:MAXIMUM_ALLOWED);
file = NULL;
if (!isnull(key_h))
{
  value = RegQueryValue(handle:key_h, item:NULL);
  if (!isnull(value)) file = value[1];

  RegCloseKey(handle:key_h);
}


# If it is...
if (file)
{
  # Determine the version from the DLL itself.
  share = ereg_replace(pattern:"^([A-Za-z]):.*", replace:"\1$", string:file);
  dll =  ereg_replace(pattern:"^[A-Za-z]:(.*)", replace:"\1", string:file);
  NetUseDel(close:FALSE);

  rc = NetUseAdd(login:login, password:pass, domain:domain, share:share);
  if (rc != 1)
  {
    NetUseDel();
    exit(0);
  }

  fh = CreateFile(
    file:dll,
    desired_access:GENERIC_READ,
    file_attributes:FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
    share_mode:FILE_SHARE_READ,
    create_disposition:OPEN_EXISTING
  );
  if (!isnull(fh))
  {
    ver = GetFileVersion(handle:fh);
    CloseFile(handle:fh);
  }

  # There's a problem if the version number is < 2.1.0.0.
  if (
    !isnull(ver) &&
    (
      ver[0] < 2 ||
      (ver[1] == 2 && ver[2] < 1)
    )
  )
  {
    version = string(ver[0], ".", ver[1], ".", ver[2], ".", ver[3]);
    report = string(
      "\n",
      "Version ", version, " of the control is installed as \n",
      "\n",
      "  ", file, "\n",
      "\n"
    );
    security_hole(port:port, extra:report);
  }
}


# Clean up.
RegCloseKey(handle:hklm);
NetUseDel();

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBUGTRAQ ID: 18860 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2006-3423 WebEx是全球最大的网络通信服务供应商,可提供电信级网络会议解决方案。 WebEx在处理组件下载操作时存在漏洞,远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞在用户机器上执行任意命令。 WebEx在召开或加入网络会议时需要使用Downloader插件来下载一些额外的组件。在下载时由于对各种ActiveX/Java控件参数和配置指令缺少验证,GpcUrlRoot和GpcIniFileName ActiveX/Java控件参数可能允许攻击者指定包含有其他控制指令的配置文件位置,允许攻击者向目标传送任意文件和可执行程序,进而完全入侵系统。 WebEx Downloader v2.0.0. WebEx ----- 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题,请到厂商的主页下载: <a href=http://www.webex.com/go/downloadSP30 target=_blank>http://www.webex.com/go/downloadSP30</a>
idSSV:2691
last seen2017-11-19
modified2007-12-26
published2007-12-26
reporterRoot
titleWebEx Downloader插件远程代码执行漏洞