Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-4685 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Juniper products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Buffer overflow in flowd in Juniper Junos 10.4 before 10.4S14, 11.4 before 11.4R7, 12.1 before 12.1R6, and 12.1X44 before 12.1X44-D15 on SRX devices, when Captive Portal is enabled with the UAC enforcer role, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests, aka PR 849100.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 4 | |
| Hardware | 12 |
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.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
| NASL family | Junos Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | JUNIPER_JSA10574.NASL |
| description | According to its self-reported version number, the remote Junos device has a remote code execution vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted HTTP request to an SRX series device can result in arbitrary code execution. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. SRX series devices are only affected when configured as a Unified Access Control (UAC) enforcer in a UAC network with Captive Portal enabled. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 68907 |
| published | 2013-07-16 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68907 |
| title | Juniper Junos SRX Series UAC Enforcer HTTP Remote Code Execution (JSA10574) |