Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-3479 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
microsoft
CWE-20
critical
nessus

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service (mqsvc.exe) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 allows remote attackers to read memory contents and execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC call, related to improper processing of parameters to string APIs, aka "Message Queuing Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Microsoft
1

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 idSMB_KB951071.NASL
    descriptionThe remote version of Windows is affected by a vulnerability in its Microsoft Message Queuing Service (MSMQ). An attacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with SYSTEM privileges.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id34413
    published2008-10-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34413
    titleMS08-065: Microsoft Windows Message Queuing Service RPC Request Handling Remote Code Execution (951071) (uncredentialed check)
  • NASL familyWindows : Microsoft Bulletins
    NASL idSMB_NT_MS08-065.NASL
    descriptionThe remote version of Windows is affected by a vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing Service (MSMQ). An attacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with the SYSTEM privileges.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id34410
    published2008-10-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34410
    titleMS08-065: Microsoft Windows Message Queuing Service RPC Request Handling Remote Code Execution (951071)

Oval

accepted2008-11-24T04:00:19.191-05:00
classvulnerability
contributors
nameJeff Ito
organizationSecure Elements, Inc.
definition_extensions
commentMicrosoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later is installed
ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:229
descriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service (mqsvc.exe) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 allows remote attackers to read memory contents and execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC call, related to improper processing of parameters to string APIs, aka "Message Queuing Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:5998
statusaccepted
submitted2008-10-14T14:00:00
titleMessaging Queue Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
version69

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBUGTRAQ ID: 31637 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2008-3479 Microsoft Windows是微软发布的非常流行的操作系统。 Windows没有正确地解析发送给消息队列服务(mqsvc.exe)的RPC请求,如果远程攻击者发送了特制的RPC请求的话,就可能在字符串拷贝操作中触发堆溢出,导致以SYSTEM权限执行任意指令。 Microsoft Windows 2000SP4 临时解决方法: * 在周边防火墙中屏蔽端口号大于1024的端口上的所有非法入站通信和任何其他特殊配置的RPC端口。 * 禁用消息队列服务。 厂商补丁: Microsoft --------- Microsoft已经为此发布了一个安全公告(MS08-065)以及相应补丁: MS08-065:Vulnerability in Message Queuing Could Allow Remote Code Execution (951071) 链接:<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-065.mspx?pf=true target=_blank>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-065.mspx?pf=true</a> 补丁下载: <a href=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=899e2728-2433-4ccb-a195-05b5d65e5469 target=_blank>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=899e2728-2433-4ccb-a195-05b5d65e5469</a>
idSSV:4244
last seen2017-11-19
modified2008-10-15
published2008-10-15
reporterRoot
titleMicrosoft Windows消息队列服务RPC查询堆溢出漏洞(MS08-065)