Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-0088 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Active Directory on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) on XP and Server 2003, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and restart) via a crafted LDAP request.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 5 |
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 family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
| NASL id | SMB_NT_MS08-003.NASL |
| description | The remote version of Active Directory contains a flaw in the LDAP request handler code that allows an attacker to crash the remote Active Directory server. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 31037 |
| published | 2008-02-12 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31037 |
| title | MS08-003: Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Denial of Service (946538) |
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Oval
| accepted | 2014-04-07T04:06:54.852-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | Unspecified vulnerability in Active Directory on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) on XP and Server 2003, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and restart) via a crafted LDAP request. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5181 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2008-02-14T10:00:19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | Windows Active Directory Denial of Service Vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 78 |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | BUGTRAQ ID: 27638 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2008-0088 Microsoft Windows是微软发布的非常流行的操作系统。 Windows系统的LDAP服务实现上存在漏洞，远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞导致服务不可用。 由于没有正确地验证特制的LDAP请求，Microsoft Windows 2000和Windows Server 2003上的活动目录实现存在拒绝服务漏洞；此外Windows XP和Windows Server 2003上所安装的活动目录应用模式（ADAM）实现也存在这个漏洞。成功利用这个漏洞的攻击者可能导致计算机停止响应并自动重启。 Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 Microsoft Windows 2000SP4 临时解决方法： * 在周边防火墙阻断TCP 389和3268端口 * 在受影响的系统上使用IPSec阻断受影响的端口 厂商补丁： Microsoft --------- Microsoft已经为此发布了一个安全公告（MS08-003）以及相应补丁: MS08-003：Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Denial of Service (946538) 链接：<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-003.mspx?pf=true target=_blank>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-003.mspx?pf=true</a> |
| id | SSV:2906 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2008-02-20 |
| published | 2008-02-20 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | Microsoft Windows活动目录LDAP请求验证远程拒绝服务漏洞（MS08-003） |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120361015026386&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28764
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27638
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019382
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043C.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0505/references
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-003
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5181