Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-100015 - Path Traversal vulnerability in Solidworks Product Data Management 2014

047910
CVSS 6.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
solidworks
CWE-22
exploit available
metasploit

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdmwService.exe in SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename in a file upload.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Solidworks
1

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Relative Path Traversal
    An attacker exploits a weakness in input validation on the target by supplying a specially constructed path utilizing dot and slash characters for the purpose of obtaining access to arbitrary files or resources. An attacker modifies a known path on the target in order to reach material that is not available through intended channels. These attacks normally involve adding additional path separators (/ or \) and/or dots (.), or encodings thereof, in various combinations in order to reach parent directories or entirely separate trees of the target's directory structure.
  • Directory Traversal
    An attacker with access to file system resources, either directly or via application logic, will use various file path specification or navigation mechanisms such as ".." in path strings and absolute paths to extend their range of access to inappropriate areas of the file system. The attacker attempts to either explore the file system for recon purposes or access directories and files that are intended to be restricted from their access. Exploring the file system can be achieved through constructing paths presented to directory listing programs, such as "ls" and 'dir', or through specially crafted programs that attempt to explore the file system. The attacker engaging in this type of activity is searching for information that can be used later in a more exploitive attack. Access to restricted directories or files can be achieved through modification of path references utilized by system applications.
  • File System Function Injection, Content Based
    An attack of this type exploits the host's trust in executing remote content including binary files. The files are poisoned with a malicious payload (targeting the file systems accessible by the target software) by the attacker and may be passed through standard channels such as via email, and standard web content like PDF and multimedia files. The attacker exploits known vulnerabilities or handling routines in the target processes. Vulnerabilities of this type have been found in a wide variety of commercial applications from Microsoft Office to Adobe Acrobat and Apple Safari web browser. When the attacker knows the standard handling routines and can identify vulnerabilities and entry points they can be exploited by otherwise seemingly normal content. Once the attack is executed, the attackers' program can access relative directories such as C:\Program Files or other standard system directories to launch further attacks. In a worst case scenario, these programs are combined with other propagation logic and work as a virus.
  • Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    This attack targets the encoding of the URL combined with the encoding of the slash characters. An attacker can take advantage of the multiple way of encoding an URL and abuse the interpretation of the URL. An URL may contain special character that need special syntax handling in order to be interpreted. Special characters are represented using a percentage character followed by two digits representing the octet code of the original character (%HEX-CODE). For instance US-ASCII space character would be represented with %20. This is often referred as escaped ending or percent-encoding. Since the server decodes the URL from the requests, it may restrict the access to some URL paths by validating and filtering out the URL requests it received. An attacker will try to craft an URL with a sequence of special characters which once interpreted by the server will be equivalent to a forbidden URL. It can be difficult to protect against this attack since the URL can contain other format of encoding such as UTF-8 encoding, Unicode-encoding, etc.
  • Manipulating Input to File System Calls
    An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionSolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 SP2 - Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability. CVE-2014-100015. Remote exploit for windows platform
    fileexploits/windows/remote/31831.py
    idEDB-ID:31831
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2014-02-22
    platformwindows
    port30000
    published2014-02-22
    reporterMohamed Shetta
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/31831/
    titleSolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 SP2 - Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability
    typeremote
  • descriptionSolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 pdmwService.exe Arbitrary File Write. CVE-2014-100015. Remote exploit for windows platform
    fileexploits/windows/remote/32163.rb
    idEDB-ID:32163
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2014-03-10
    platformwindows
    port30000
    published2014-03-10
    reportermetasploit
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/32163/
    titleSolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 pdmwService.exe Arbitrary File Write
    typeremote

Metasploit

descriptionThis module exploits a remote arbitrary file write vulnerability in SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 SP2 and prior. For targets running Windows Vista or newer the payload is written to the startup folder for all users and executed upon next user logon. For targets before Windows Vista code execution can be achieved by first uploading the payload as an exe file, and then upload another mof file, which schedules WMI to execute the uploaded payload. This module has been tested successfully on SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2011 SP0 on Windows XP SP3 (EN) and Windows 7 SP1 (EN).
idMSF:EXPLOIT/WINDOWS/MISC/SOLIDWORKS_WORKGROUP_PDMWSERVICE_FILE_WRITE
last seen2020-05-16
modified2019-01-10
published2014-03-02
referenceshttps://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-100015
reporterRapid7
sourcehttps://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/windows/misc/solidworks_workgroup_pdmwservice_file_write.rb
titleSolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 pdmwService.exe Arbitrary File Write