Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2145 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The cpansign verify functionality in the Module::Signature module before 0.72 for Perl allows attackers to bypass the signature check and execute arbitrary code via a SIGNATURE file with a "special unknown cipher" that references an untrusted module in Digest/.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
---|---|---|
OS | 3 | |
OS | 3 | |
Application | 3 |
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 family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1896-1.NASL description Florian Weimer discovered that the Module::Signature perl module incorrectly loaded unknown ciphers from relative directories. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code when a signature is verified. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67187 published 2013-07-05 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67187 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : libmodule-signature-perl vulnerability (USN-1896-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1896-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(67187); script_version("1.6"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:29"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2145"); script_bugtraq_id(60352); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1896-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : libmodule-signature-perl vulnerability (USN-1896-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Florian Weimer discovered that the Module::Signature perl module incorrectly loaded unknown ciphers from relative directories. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code when a signature is verified. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1896-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libmodule-signature-perl package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmodule-signature-perl"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/08/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/07/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/07/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(12\.04|12\.10|13\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libmodule-signature-perl", pkgver:"0.68-1ubuntu0.12.04.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libmodule-signature-perl", pkgver:"0.68-1ubuntu0.12.10.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.04", pkgname:"libmodule-signature-perl", pkgver:"0.68-1ubuntu0.13.04.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libmodule-signature-perl"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-10354.NASL description This update ensures that digest modules are only loaded from absolute paths in @INC, avoiding a potential arbitrary code execution problem (CVE-2013-2145). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-12 plugin id 67279 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67279 title Fedora 19 : perl-Module-Signature-0.73-1.fc19 (2013-10354) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2013-573.NASL description perl-Module-Signature was updated to 0.73, fixing bugs and security issues : Security fix for code execution in signature checking : - fix for bnc#828010 (CVE-2013-2145) - Properly redo the previous fix using File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute. - [Changes for 0.72 - Wed Jun 5 23:19:02 CST 2013] - Only allow loading Digest::* from absolute paths in @INC, by ensuring they begin with \ or / characters. Contributed by: Florian Weimer (CVE-2013-2145) - [Changes for 0.71 - Tue Jun 4 18:24:10 CST 2013] - Constrain the user-specified digest name to /^\w+\d+$/. - Avoid loading Digest::* from relative paths in @INC. Contributed by: Florian Weimer (CVE-2013-2145) - [Changes for 0.70 - Thu Nov 29 01:45:54 CST 2012] - Don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 75080 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75080 title openSUSE Security Update : perl-Module-Signature (openSUSE-SU-2013:1178-1) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2013-185.NASL description Updated perl-Module-Signature package fixes CVE-2013-2145 Arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Module::Signature before 0.72 (CVE-2013-2145). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67014 published 2013-06-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67014 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Module-Signature (MDVSA-2013:185) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201310-01.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201310-01 (Perl Module-Signature module: Arbitrary code execution) The ‘cpansign verify’ command will automatically download keys and use them to check the signature of CPAN packages via the SIGNATURE file. If an attacker were to replace this (SHA1) with a special unknown cipher (e.g. ‘Special’) and were to include in the distribution a ‘Digest/Special.pm’, the code in this Perl module would be executed when ‘cpansign -verify’ is run. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 70307 published 2013-10-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70307 title GLSA-201310-01 : Perl Module-Signature module: Arbitrary code execution NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-10430.NASL description This update ensures that digest modules are only loaded from absolute paths in @INC, avoiding a potential arbitrary code execution problem (CVE-2013-2145). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-12 plugin id 67282 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67282 title Fedora 18 : perl-Module-Signature-0.73-1.fc18 (2013-10430) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-10415.NASL description This update ensures that digest modules are only loaded from absolute paths in @INC, avoiding a potential arbitrary code execution problem (CVE-2013-2145). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-12 plugin id 67281 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67281 title Fedora 17 : perl-Module-Signature-0.73-1.fc17 (2013-10415)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00043.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/16
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60352
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1896-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971096
- https://github.com/audreyt/module-signature/commit/575f7bd6ba4cc7c92f841e8758f88a131674ebf2
- https://github.com/audreyt/module-signature/commit/cbd06b392a73c63159dc5c20ff5b3c8fc88c4896