Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-2538 - Race Condition vulnerability in SUN Solaris 10/8/9
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in crontab on Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to insert cron jobs into the crontab files of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 6 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS9_122300.NASL description SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/03/11 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24858 published 2007-03-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24858 title Solaris 9 (sparc) : 122300-61 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS10_X86_137018.NASL description SunOS 5.10_x86: crontab patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jul/14/08 last seen 2018-09-02 modified 2018-08-13 plugin id 32500 published 2008-06-02 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=32500 title Solaris 10 (x86) : 137018-03 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS10_137017.NASL description SunOS 5.10: crontab patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jul/14/08 last seen 2018-09-01 modified 2018-08-13 plugin id 32495 published 2008-06-02 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=32495 title Solaris 10 (sparc) : 137017-03 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS9_X86_122301.NASL description SunOS 5.9_x86: Kernel Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/03/11 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24861 published 2007-03-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24861 title Solaris 9 (x86) : 122301-61
Oval
accepted | 2008-07-21T04:00:08.039-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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description | Unspecified vulnerability in crontab on Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to insert cron jobs into the crontab files of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
family | unix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4725 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2008-06-05T11:19:56.000-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
title | Security Vulnerability in the Solaris crontab(1) utility may allow execution of Arbitrary Code | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
version | 35 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30482
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30542
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020151
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237864-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-222.htm
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1714
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42763
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4725