Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0220 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Cloudera Manager

047910
CVSS 4.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
cloudera
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2014-06-10
Updated: 2018-10-09

Summary

Cloudera Manager before 4.8.3 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive configuration information via the API.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cloudera
38

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 familyCGI abuses
NASL idCLOUDERA_MANAGER_4_8_3.NASL
descriptionThe version of Cloudera Manager running on the remote host is prior to 4.8.3 or else 5.x prior to 5.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability because the API fails to properly restrict access to sensitive data by non-administrator users. A low privilege user can utilize this flaw to access sensitive configuration values that should only be accessible to users with administrative privileges.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id76260
published2014-06-26
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/76260
titleCloudera Manager < 4.8.3 / 5.x < 5.0.1 Information Disclosure
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(76260);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/28 22:47:41");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0220");
  script_bugtraq_id(67912);

  script_name(english:"Cloudera Manager < 4.8.3 / 5.x < 5.0.1 Information Disclosure");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the Cloudera Manager version.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server hosts an application that is affected by an
information disclosure vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Cloudera Manager running on the remote host is prior to
4.8.3 or else 5.x prior to 5.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an
information disclosure vulnerability because the API fails to properly
restrict access to sensitive data by non-administrator users. A low
privilege user can utilize this flaw to access sensitive configuration
values that should only be accessible to users with administrative
privileges.");
  # http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/security-bulletins/Security-Bulletin/csb_topic_2.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b1d4a81a");
  # https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?945ec805");
  # http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_rn_fixed_issues.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1257c4c6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Cloudera Manager version 4.8.3 / 5.0.1 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:ND");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/06/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cloudera:cloudera_manager");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("cloudera_manager_detect.nbin");
  script_require_keys("installed_sw/Cloudera Manager");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 7180, 7183);

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
include("install_func.inc");

app = "Cloudera Manager";

get_install_count(app_name:app, exit_if_zero:TRUE);

port = get_http_port(default:7183);

install = get_single_install(
  app_name : app,
  port     : port,
  exit_if_unknown_ver : TRUE
);

dir = install["path"];
version = install["version"];
install_url = build_url(port:port, qs:dir);

vuln = FALSE;

ver = split(version, sep:".", keep:FALSE);
for (i=0; i<max_index(ver); i++)
  ver[i] = int(ver[i]);

if (ver[0] < 4)
{
  fix = "4.8.3 / 5.0.1";
  vuln = TRUE;
}
else if (version =~ "^4\.")
{
  if (
    (ver[0] == 4 && ver[1] < 8) ||
    (ver[0] == 4 && ver[1] == 8 && ver[2] < 3)
  )
  {
    fix = "4.8.3";
    vuln = TRUE;
  }
}
else if (version =~ "^5\.0\.0($|[^0-9]+)")
{
  fix = "5.0.1";
  vuln = TRUE;
}

if (vuln)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0)
  {
    report =
      '\n  URL               : ' +install_url+
      '\n  Installed version : ' +version+
      '\n  Fixed version     : ' +fix + '\n';
    security_warning(port:port, extra:report);
  }
  else security_warning(port);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_WEB_APP_NOT_AFFECTED, app, install_url, version);

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