Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-1350 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Novell Netidentity Client1.2.3

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
novell
CWE-20
critical
nessus
exploit available
metasploit

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in xtagent.exe in Novell NetIdentity Client before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by establishing an IPC$ connection to the XTIERRPCPIPE named pipe, and sending RPC messages that trigger a dereference of an arbitrary pointer.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Novell
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.

Exploit-Db

descriptionNovell NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE Named Pipe Buffer Overflow. CVE-2009-1350. Remote exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:16376
last seen2016-02-01
modified2010-11-24
published2010-11-24
reportermetasploit
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/16376/
titleNovell NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE Named Pipe Buffer Overflow

Metasploit

descriptionThis module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Novell's NetIdentity Agent. When sending a specially crafted string to the 'XTIERRPCPIPE' named pipe, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code. The success of this module is much greater once the service has been restarted.
idMSF:EXPLOIT/WINDOWS/SMB/NETIDENTITY_XTIERRPCPIPE
last seen2020-06-12
modified2019-08-15
published2009-07-21
references
reporterRapid7
sourcehttps://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/windows/smb/netidentity_xtierrpcpipe.rb
titleNovell NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE Named Pipe Buffer Overflow

Nessus

NASL familyWindows
NASL idNOVELL_NETIDENTITY_1_2_4.NASL
descriptionThe
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id36103
published2009-04-07
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36103
titleNovell NetIdentity Agent < 1.2.4 Arbitrary Pointer De-reference Code Execution
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");


if (description)
{
  script_id(36103);
  script_version("1.15");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1350");
  script_bugtraq_id(34400);
  script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"34574");

  script_name(english:"Novell NetIdentity Agent < 1.2.4 Arbitrary Pointer De-reference Code Execution");
  script_summary(english:"Checks version of xtagent.exe");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Windows host allows remote execution of arbitrary code.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The 'xtagent.exe' program included with the version of Novell's
NetIdentity Agent installed on the remote Windows host contains an
arbitrary pointer de-reference vulnerability. Using specially crafted
RPC messages over the 'XTIERRPCPIPE' named pipe, an attacker who can
establish a valid IPC$ connection can leverage this issue to execute
arbitrary code with system privileges on the affected host.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-016/");
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/52"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=6ERQGPjRZ8o~"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to NetIdentity Agent 1.2.4, build 1.2.612 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Novell NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE Named Pipe Buffer Overflow');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(20);

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/04/03");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/07");

  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) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

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

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("SMB/Registry/Enumerated")) exit(1, "KB 'SMB/Registry/Enumerated' not set to TRUE.");


# Make sure the affected service is running, unless we're being paranoid.
if (report_paranoia < 2)
{
  services = get_kb_item("SMB/svcs");
  if (
    services &&
    "XTAgent" >!< services &&
    "Novell XTier Agent Services" >!< services
  ) exit(0);
}


# Connect to the appropriate share.
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$");
if (rc != 1)
{
  NetUseDel();
  audit(AUDIT_SHARE_FAIL,"IPC$");
}


# Connect to remote registry.
hklm = RegConnectRegistry(hkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE);
if (isnull(hklm))
{
  NetUseDel();
  audit(AUDIT_REG_FAIL);

}


# Find the agent's location.
file = NULL;

key = "SOFTWARE\Novell\NetIdentity\SharedDLLs";
key_h = RegOpenKey(handle:hklm, key:key, mode:MAXIMUM_ALLOWED);
if (!isnull(key_h))
{
  info = RegQueryInfoKey(handle:key_h);
  for (i=0; i<info[0]; ++i)
  {
    value = RegEnumValue(handle:key_h, index:i);
    if (strlen(value[1]) && value[1] =~ "xtagent\.exe$")
    {
      file = value[1];
      break;
    }
  }
  RegCloseKey(handle:key_h);
}
RegCloseKey(handle:hklm);
if (isnull(file))
{
  NetUseDel();
  exit(0);
}


# Grab the version from the executable.
share = ereg_replace(pattern:"^([A-Za-z]):.*", replace:"\1$", string:file);
exe =  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();
  audit(AUDIT_SHARE_FAIL,share);
}

fh = CreateFile(
  file:exe,
  desired_access:GENERIC_READ,
  file_attributes:FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
  share_mode:FILE_SHARE_READ,
  create_disposition:OPEN_EXISTING
);

ver = NULL;
if (!isnull(fh))
{
  ver = GetFileVersion(handle:fh);
  CloseFile(handle:fh);
}
NetUseDel();


# Check the version number.
if (!isnull(ver))
{
  fix = split("1.2.4.5", sep:'.', keep:FALSE);
  for (i=0; i<max_index(fix); i++)
    fix[i] = int(fix[i]);

  for (i=0; i<max_index(ver); i++)
    if ((ver[i] < fix[i]))
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0)
      {
        version = string(ver[0], ".", ver[1], ".", ver[2], " Build ", ver[3]);

        report = string(
          "\n",
          "  File    : ", file, "\n",
          "  Version : ", version, "\n"
        );
        security_hole(port:port, extra:report);
      }
      else security_hole(port);
      break;
    }
    else if (ver[i] > fix[i])
      break;
}

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/83222/netidentity_xtierrpcpipe.rb.txt
idPACKETSTORM:83222
last seen2016-12-05
published2009-11-26
reporterRuben Santamarta
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/83222/Novell-NetIdentity-Agent-XTIERRPCPIPE-Named-Pipe-Buffer-Overflow.html
titleNovell NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE Named Pipe Buffer Overflow

Saint

bid34400
descriptionNovell Client NetIdentity Agent XTIERRPCPIPE pointer dereference vulnerability
idmisc_novellclient_xtagent
osvdb53351
titlenovell_client_netidentity_xtierrpcpipe
typeremote