Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-7458 - Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
linenoise, as used in Redis before 3.2.3, uses world-readable permissions for .rediscli_history, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- 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.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_FA175F308C7511E6924A60A44CE6887B.NASL description Redis team reports : The redis-cli history file (in linenoise) is created with the default OS umask value which makes it world readable in most systems and could potentially expose authentication credentials to other users. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93991 published 2016-10-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93991 title FreeBSD : redis -- sensitive information leak through command history file (fa175f30-8c75-11e6-924a-60a44ce6887b) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(93991); script_version("2.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:46"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-7458"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : redis -- sensitive information leak through command history file (fa175f30-8c75-11e6-924a-60a44ce6887b)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Redis team reports : The redis-cli history file (in linenoise) is created with the default OS umask value which makes it world readable in most systems and could potentially expose authentication credentials to other users." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/1418" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3284" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/fa175f30-8c75-11e6-924a-60a44ce6887b.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?641f6d52" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:redis"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:redis-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/11/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/10/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"redis<3.2.3")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"redis-devel<3.2.3")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_note(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-945.NASL description This update for redis fixes the following issues : - CVE-2013-7458: unsafe permissions of command line history (boo#991250) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-08-08 plugin id 92775 published 2016-08-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92775 title openSUSE Security Update : redis (openSUSE-2016-945) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-577.NASL description It was discovered that the redis-cli tool in redis (an in-memory key-value database) created world-readable history files. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-08-01 plugin id 92640 published 2016-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92640 title Debian DLA-577-1 : redis security update NASL family Misc. NASL id REDIS_CVE-2013-7458.NASL description The version of Redis installed on the remote host is affected by a local information disclosure and therefore requires a security update. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109322 published 2018-04-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109322 title Pivotal Software Redis < 3.2.3 Local Information Disclosure NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3634.NASL description It was discovered that redis, a persistent key-value database, did not properly protect redis-cli history files: they were created by default with world-readable permissions. Users and systems administrators may want to proactively change permissions on existing ~/rediscli_history files, instead of waiting for the updated redis-cli to do so the next time it is run. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92642 published 2016-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92642 title Debian DSA-3634-1 : redis - security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-4B176C1694.NASL description Upstream 3.2.8 ---- Upstream 3.2.7 (important security fix) ---- Security fix for CVE-2013-7458 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-06-22 plugin id 100970 published 2017-06-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100970 title Fedora 24 : redis (2017-4b176c1694)
References
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3284
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/3322
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832460
- https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/pull/122
- https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/issues/121
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/3.2/00-RELEASENOTES
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/1418
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3634
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00029.html