Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-3635 - Improper Authentication vulnerability in Typo3
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The Install Tool subcomponent in TYPO3 4.0.13 and earlier, 4.1.x before 4.1.13, 4.2.x before 4.2.10, and 4.3.x before 4.3beta2 allows remote attackers to gain access by using only the password's md5 hash as a credential.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Authentication Abuse An attacker obtains unauthorized access to an application, service or device either through knowledge of the inherent weaknesses of an authentication mechanism, or by exploiting a flaw in the authentication scheme's implementation. In such an attack an authentication mechanism is functioning but a carefully controlled sequence of events causes the mechanism to grant access to the attacker. This attack may exploit assumptions made by the target's authentication procedures, such as assumptions regarding trust relationships or assumptions regarding the generation of secret values. This attack differs from Authentication Bypass attacks in that Authentication Abuse allows the attacker to be certified as a valid user through illegitimate means, while Authentication Bypass allows the user to access protected material without ever being certified as an authenticated user. This attack does not rely on prior sessions established by successfully authenticating users, as relied upon for the "Exploitation of Session Variables, Resource IDs and other Trusted Credentials" attack patterns.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Register Man in the Middle This attack utilizes a REST(REpresentational State Transfer)-style applications' trust in the system resources and environment to place man in the middle once SSL is terminated. Rest applications premise is that they leverage existing infrastructure to deliver web services functionality. An example of this is a Rest application that uses HTTP Get methods and receives a HTTP response with an XML document. These Rest style web services are deployed on existing infrastructure such as Apache and IIS web servers with no SOAP stack required. Unfortunately from a security standpoint, there frequently is no interoperable identity security mechanism deployed, so Rest developers often fall back to SSL to deliver security. In large data centers, SSL is typically terminated at the edge of the network - at the firewall, load balancer, or router. Once the SSL is terminated the HTTP request is in the clear (unless developers have hashed or encrypted the values, but this is rare). The attacker can utilize a sniffer such as Wireshark to snapshot the credentials, such as username and password that are passed in the clear once SSL is terminated. Once the attacker gathers these credentials, they can submit requests to the web service provider just as authorized user do. There is not typically an authentication on the client side, beyond what is passed in the request itself so once this is compromised, then this is generally sufficient to compromise the service's authentication scheme.
- Man in the Middle Attack This type of attack targets the communication between two components (typically client and server). The attacker places himself in the communication channel between the two components. Whenever one component attempts to communicate with the other (data flow, authentication challenges, etc.), the data first goes to the attacker, who has the opportunity to observe or alter it, and it is then passed on to the other component as if it was never intercepted. This interposition is transparent leaving the two compromised components unaware of the potential corruption or leakage of their communications. The potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks yields an implicit lack of trust in communication or identify between two components.
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_6693BAD2CA5011DE8EE800215C6A37BB.NASL description TYPO3 develop team reports : Affected versions: TYPO3 versions 4.0.13 and below, 4.1.12 and below, 4.2.9 and below, 4.3.0beta1 and below. 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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3628 The Backend subcomponent allows remote authenticated users to determine an encryption key via crafted input to a form field. - CVE-2009-3629 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Backend subcomponent allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2009-3630 The Backend subcomponent allows remote authenticated users to place arbitrary websites in TYPO3 backend framesets via crafted parameters. - CVE-2009-3631 The Backend subcomponent, when the DAM extension or ftp upload is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename. - CVE-2009-3632 SQL injection vulnerability in the traditional frontend editing feature in the Frontend Editing subcomponent allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands. - CVE-2009-3633 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script. - CVE-2009-3634 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Login Box (aka felogin) subcomponent allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2009-3635 The Install Tool subcomponent allows remote attackers to gain access by using only the password last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44791 published 2010-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44791 title Debian DSA-1926-1 : typo3-src - several vulnerabilities code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1926. 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References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125632856206736&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37122
- http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2009-016/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36801
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3009
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53928