Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1869 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Redhat Satellite and Spacewalk-Java

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
redhat
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

CRLF injection vulnerability in spacewalk-java before 2.1.148-1 and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via the return_url parameter.

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 familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2014-0148.NASL
descriptionUpdated spacewalk-java, spacewalk-web, and satellite-branding packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool. A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way the Red Hat Satellite web interface performed sanitization of notes for registered systems. A remote authenticated Red Hat Satellite user could create a malicious note that, when viewed by a victim, could execute arbitrary web script with the privileges of the user viewing that note. (CVE-2012-6149) Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in the Red Hat Satellite web interface. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted link that, when visited by an authenticated Red Hat Satellite user, would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the user
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id78995
published2014-11-08
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/78995
titleRHEL 5 / 6 : spacewalk-java, spacewalk-web and satellite-branding (RHSA-2014:0148)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2014:0148. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(78995);
  script_version("1.12");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/24 15:35:38");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-6149", "CVE-2013-1869", "CVE-2013-1871", "CVE-2013-4415");
  script_bugtraq_id(65590, 65592, 65593, 65594);
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:0148");

  script_name(english:"RHEL 5 / 6 : spacewalk-java, spacewalk-web and satellite-branding (RHSA-2014:0148)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Updated spacewalk-java, spacewalk-web, and satellite-branding packages
that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat
Satellite 5.6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for
each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based
infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, remote management and
monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized
tool.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way the Red Hat
Satellite web interface performed sanitization of notes for registered
systems. A remote authenticated Red Hat Satellite user could create a
malicious note that, when viewed by a victim, could execute arbitrary
web script with the privileges of the user viewing that note.
(CVE-2012-6149)

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in the Red Hat
Satellite web interface. A remote attacker could provide a specially
crafted link that, when visited by an authenticated Red Hat Satellite
user, would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of
the user's web interface session. (CVE-2013-1871, CVE-2013-4415)

An HTTP header injection flaw was found in the way the Red Hat
Satellite web interface processed the return URL parameter for all
HTTP GET requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) and HTTP response splitting attacks against
users visiting the site. (CVE-2013-1869)

Red Hat would like to thank Ben Ford of Puppet Labs for reporting
CVE-2012-6149, Ryan Giobbi of UPMC for reporting CVE-2013-1869 and
CVE-2013-1871, and Adam Willard and Jose Carlos de Arriba of
Foreground Security for reporting CVE-2013-4415.

Users of Red Hat Satellite 5.6 are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolve these issues. For this update to take effect,
Red Hat Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for
details."
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  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0148"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6149"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1869"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4415"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1871"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:satellite-branding");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-base-minimal");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-base-minimal-config");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-dobby");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-grail");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-config");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-lib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-oracle");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-pxt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-sniglets");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-taskomatic");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/02/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/02/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(5|6)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 5.x / 6.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);

yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo)) 
{
  rhsa = "RHSA-2014:0148";
  yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
  if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
  {
    security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : yum_report 
    );
    exit(0);
  }
  else
  {
    audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
    audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
  }
}
else
{
  flag = 0;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"satellite-branding-5.6.0.23-1.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-base-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-html-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-java-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-19.el5sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-58.el5sat")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"satellite-branding-5.6.0.23-1.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-base-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-html-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-java-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-19.el6sat")) flag++;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-58.el6sat")) flag++;

  if (flag)
  {
    security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
    );
    exit(0);
  }
  else
  {
    tested = pkg_tests_get();
    if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
    else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "satellite-branding / spacewalk-base / spacewalk-base-minimal / etc");
  }
}

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2014:0148
rpms
  • satellite-branding-0:5.6.0.23-1.el5sat
  • satellite-branding-0:5.6.0.23-1.el6sat
  • spacewalk-base-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-base-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-base-minimal-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-base-minimal-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-base-minimal-config-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-base-minimal-config-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-dobby-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-dobby-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-grail-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-grail-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-html-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-html-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
  • spacewalk-java-config-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-java-config-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
  • spacewalk-java-lib-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-java-lib-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
  • spacewalk-java-oracle-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-java-oracle-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
  • spacewalk-java-postgresql-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-java-postgresql-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
  • spacewalk-pxt-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-pxt-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-sniglets-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
  • spacewalk-sniglets-0:2.0.3-19.el6sat
  • spacewalk-taskomatic-0:2.0.2-58.el5sat
  • spacewalk-taskomatic-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat