Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0233 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Microsoft products

047910
CVSS 5.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
microsoft
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

The DNS Resolver Cache Service (aka DNSCache) in Windows DNS Server in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008, when dynamic updates are enabled, does not reuse cached DNS responses in all applicable situations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to predict transaction IDs and poison caches by simultaneously sending crafted DNS queries and responses, aka "DNS Server Query Validation Vulnerability."

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Microsoft
7

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.

Msbulletin

bulletin_idMS09-008
bulletin_url
date2009-03-10T00:00:00
impactSpoofing
knowledgebase_id962238
knowledgebase_url
severityImportant
titleVulnerabilities in DNS and WINS Server Could Allow Spoofing

Nessus

  • NASL familyDNS
    NASL idMS_DNS_KB961063.NASL
    descriptionAccording to its self-reported version number, the Microsoft DNS Server running on the remote host has the following vulnerabilities : - An issue exists in installations where dynamic updates are enabled and ISATAP and WPAD are not already registered in DNS due to the lack of restricting registration on the
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id72835
    published2014-03-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72835
    titleMS09-008: Vulnerabilities in DNS Server Could Allow Spoofing (961063) (uncredentialed check)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(72835);
      script_version("1.9");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:21");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0093", "CVE-2009-0233", "CVE-2009-0234");
      script_bugtraq_id(33982, 33988, 33989);
      script_xref(name:"MSFT", value:"MS09-008");
      script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2009-A-0018");
      script_xref(name:"MSKB", value:"961063");
    
      script_name(english:"MS09-008: Vulnerabilities in DNS Server Could Allow Spoofing (961063) (uncredentialed check)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks version of Microsoft DNS Server");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "The DNS server running on the remote host is vulnerable to DNS spoofing
    attacks.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "According to its self-reported version number, the Microsoft DNS Server
    running on the remote host has the following vulnerabilities :
    
      - An issue exists in installations where dynamic updates
        are enabled and ISATAP and WPAD are not already
        registered in DNS due to the lack of restricting
        registration on the 'wpad' hostname.  A remote,
        authenticated attacker can exploit this issue to
        perform a man-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2009-0093)
    
      - An issue exists that allows a remote, unauthenticated
        attacker to quickly and reliably spoof responses and
        insert records into the DNS server's cache.
        (CVE-2009-0233)
    
      - An issue exists in the DNS Resolver Cache Service due
        to improper caching of DNS responses that could allow
        a remote, unauthenticated attacker to predict
        transaction IDs and poison caches by sending many
        crafted DNS queries. (CVE-2009-0234)
    
    These issues may allow remote attackers to redirect network traffic
    intended for systems on the Internet to the attacker's own systems.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2009/ms09-008");
      # https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2009/03/13/ms09-008-dns-and-wins-server-security-update-in-more-detail/
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8115046e");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows 2000, 2003 and
    2008.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
      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_cwe_id(20);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2009/03/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/03/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/03/05");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:microsoft:windows");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"DNS");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
    
      script_dependencies("ms_dns_version.nasl");
      script_require_keys("ms_dns/version", "Settings/ParanoidReport");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Settings/PCI_DSS") && report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);
    
    version = get_kb_item_or_exit("ms_dns/version");
    port = 53;
    fix = NULL;
    
    # Windows Server 2008
    if (version =~ "^6\.0\.6001\.20\d{3}$" && ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"6.0.6001.22375") == -1)
      fix = "6.0.6001.22375";
    else if (version =~ "^6\.0\.6001\.18\d{3}$" && ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"6.0.6001.18214") == -1)
      fix = "6.0.6001.18214";
    
    # Windows Server 2003
    else if (version =~ "^5\.2\.3790\.")
    {
      # SP2
      if (
        ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"5.2.3790.3959") >= 0 &&
        ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"5.2.3790.4460") == -1
      )
        fix = "5.2.3790.4460";
    
      # SP1
      else if (ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"5.2.3790.3295") == -1)
        fix = "5.2.3790.3295";
      else
        audit(AUDIT_LISTEN_NOT_VULN, "Microsoft DNS Server", port, version, "UDP");
    }
    
    # Windows 2000
    else if (version =~ "^5\.0\.2195\." && ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"5.0.2195.7260") == -1)
      fix = "5.0.2195.7260";
    
    else
      audit(AUDIT_LISTEN_NOT_VULN, "Microsoft DNS Server", port, version, "UDP");
    
    
    if (report_verbosity > 0)
    {
      report =
        '\n  Installed version : ' + version +
        '\n  Fixed version     : ' + fix +
        '\n';
      security_warning(port:port, proto:"udp", extra:report);
    }
    else security_warning(port:port, proto:"udp");
    
    
  • NASL familyWindows : Microsoft Bulletins
    NASL idSMB_NT_MS09-008.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host has a Windows DNS server and/or a Windows WINS server installed. Multiple vulnerabilities in the way that Windows DNS servers cache and validate queries as well as the way that Windows DNS servers and Windows WINS servers handle WPAD and ISATAP registration may allow remote attackers to redirect network traffic intended for systems on the Internet to the attacker
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35824
    published2009-03-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35824
    titleMS09-008: Vulnerabilities in DNS and WINS Server Could Allow Spoofing (962238)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(35824);
      script_version("1.27");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:30");
    
      script_cve_id(
        "CVE-2009-0093",
        "CVE-2009-0094",
        "CVE-2009-0233",
        "CVE-2009-0234"
      );
      script_bugtraq_id(33982, 33988, 33989, 34013);
      script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2009-A-0018");
      script_xref(name:"MSFT", value:"MS09-008");
      script_xref(name:"MSKB", value:"961063");
      script_xref(name:"MSKB", value:"961064");
      script_xref(name:"CERT", value:"319331");
    
      script_name(english:"MS09-008: Vulnerabilities in DNS and WINS Server Could Allow Spoofing (962238)");
      script_summary(english:"Determines the presence of update 962238");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote host is vulnerable to DNS and/or WINS spoofing attacks.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "The remote host has a Windows DNS server and/or a Windows WINS server
    installed.
    
    Multiple vulnerabilities in the way that Windows DNS servers cache and
    validate queries as well as the way that Windows DNS servers and Windows
    WINS servers handle WPAD and ISATAP registration may allow remote
    attackers to redirect network traffic intended for systems on the
    Internet to the attacker's own systems.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2009/ms09-008");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows 2000, 2003 and
    2008.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
      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_cwe_id(20);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2009/03/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/03/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/03/11");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:microsoft:windows");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"Windows : Microsoft Bulletins");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
    
      script_dependencies("smb_hotfixes.nasl", "ms_bulletin_checks_possible.nasl");
      script_require_keys("SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible");
      script_require_ports(139, 445, 'Host/patch_management_checks');
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("smb_func.inc");
    include("smb_hotfixes.inc");
    include("smb_hotfixes_fcheck.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    
    get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible");
    
    bulletin = 'MS09-008';
    kbs = make_list("961063", "961064");
    if (get_kb_item("Host/patch_management_checks")) hotfix_check_3rd_party(bulletin:bulletin, kbs:kbs, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
    
    
    get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/Registry/Enumerated");
    get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/WindowsVersion", exit_code:1);
    
    if (hotfix_check_sp_range(win2k:'4,5', win2003:'1,2', vista:'1') <= 0) audit(AUDIT_OS_SP_NOT_VULN);
    if (!get_kb_item("SMB/Registry/HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/DNS/DisplayName")) exit(0, "The host is not operate as a DNS server.");
    
    productname = get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/ProductName", exit_code:1);
    if ("Vista" >< productname) exit(0, "The host is running "+productname+" and hence is not affected.");
    
    rootfile = hotfix_get_systemroot();
    if (!rootfile) exit(1, "Failed to get the system root.");
    
    share = hotfix_path2share(path:rootfile);
    if (!is_accessible_share(share:share)) audit(AUDIT_SHARE_FAIL, share);
    
    if (
      # Windows Server 2008
      #
      # nb: CVE-2009-0094 (WPAD WINS Server Registration Vulnerability) doesn't apply to 2008.
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"6.0", sp:1, file:"Dns.exe", version:"6.0.6001.22375", min_version:"6.0.6001.20000", dir:"\system32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961063") ||
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"6.0", sp:1, file:"Dns.exe", version:"6.0.6001.18214", dir:"\system32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961063") ||
    
      # Windows Server 2003
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.2", sp:2, file:"Dns.exe", version:"5.2.3790.4460", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961063") ||
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.2", sp:2, file:"Wins.exe", version:"5.2.3790.4446", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961064") ||
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.2", sp:1, file:"Dns.exe", version:"5.2.3790.3295", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961063") ||
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.2", sp:1, file:"Wins.exe", version:"5.2.3790.3281", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961064") ||
    
      # Windows 2000
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.0", file:"Dns.exe", version:"5.0.2195.7260", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961063") ||
      hotfix_is_vulnerable(os:"5.0", file:"Wins.exe", version:"5.0.2195.7241", dir:"\System32", bulletin:bulletin, kb:"961064")
    )
    {
      set_kb_item(name:"SMB/Missing/"+bulletin, value:TRUE);
      hotfix_security_warning();
      hotfix_check_fversion_end();
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      hotfix_check_fversion_end();
      audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
    }
    

Oval

accepted2011-11-14T04:00:59.175-05:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameDragos Prisaca
    organizationGideon Technologies, Inc.
  • nameChandan S
    organizationSecPod Technologies
definition_extensions
  • commentMicrosoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:229
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (x86) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:565
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (x64) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:4386
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 for Itanium is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:1205
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:1935
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x64) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:2161
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) SP2 is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:1442
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:4870
  • commentMicrosoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:5356
descriptionThe DNS Resolver Cache Service (aka DNSCache) in Windows DNS Server in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008, when dynamic updates are enabled, does not reuse cached DNS responses in all applicable situations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to predict transaction IDs and poison caches by simultaneously sending crafted DNS queries and responses, aka "DNS Server Query Validation Vulnerability."
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6228
statusaccepted
submitted2009-03-10T16:00:00
titleDNS Server Query Validation Vulnerability
version73

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBUGTRAQ ID: 34013,33982,33988,33989 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2009-0093,CVE-2009-0094,CVE-2009-0233,CVE-2009-0234 Microsoft Windows是微软发布的非常流行的操作系统。 Windows DNS服务器和WINS服务器存在多个漏洞,可能会允许远程攻击者将Internet上发送给系统的网络通信重定向至攻击者自己的系统。 1) Windows DNS服务器没有正确地重新使用缓存的响应,特制的DNS查询可以向DNS缓存投毒,重新定向网络通讯。 2) Windows DNS服务器没有正确地缓存DNS响应,未经认证的远程攻击者向DNS服务器发送特制查询,以增加DNS服务器所使用事件ID的可预测性,这样可以重新定向合法位置的Internet通讯。 3) 如果Windows DNS服务器中使用了动态更新且DNS中还没有注册ISATAP和WPAD,则服务器无法正确地验证注册WPAD项的用户。远程攻击者可以通过在指向预期IP地址的DNS数据库中注册WPAD执行中间人攻击。 4) Windows WINS服务器没有正确地验证哪些用户可以注册WPAD或ISATAP项,远程攻击者可以通过在执行预期IP地址的WINS服务器中注册WPAD或ISATP执行中间人攻击。 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4 厂商补丁: Microsoft --------- Microsoft已经为此发布了一个安全公告(MS09-008)以及相应补丁: MS09-008:Vulnerabilities in DNS and WINS Server Could Allow Spoofing (962238) 链接:<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-008.mspx?pf=true target=_blank rel=external nofollow>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-008.mspx?pf=true</a>
idSSV:4893
last seen2017-11-19
modified2009-03-12
published2009-03-12
reporterRoot
sourcehttps://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-4893
titleMicrosoft Windows DNS/WINS服务器多个欺骗漏洞(MS09-008)