Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-2029 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Percona Toolkit 2.1

047910
CVSS 8.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
percona
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-09-29
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The automatic version check functionality in the tools in Percona Toolkit 2.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code by leveraging use of HTTP to download configuration information from v.percona.com.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Percona
1

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 familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-205.NASL
    descriptionpercona-toolkit was updated to 2.1.11 [bnc#864194] CVE-2014-2029 This improves sanitisation of input and output for commands run when performing a version check. This option is not the default.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-06-13
    plugin id75287
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75287
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : percona-toolkit (openSUSE-SU-2014:0361-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-205.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(75287);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2029");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : percona-toolkit (openSUSE-SU-2014:0361-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2014-205 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"percona-toolkit was updated to 2.1.11 [bnc#864194] CVE-2014-2029

This improves sanitisation of input and output for commands run when
performing a version check. This option is not the default."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864194"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00031.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected percona-toolkit package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:percona-toolkit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/03/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE12\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "12.3", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);



flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"percona-toolkit-2.1.11-2.12.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "percona-toolkit");
}
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-207.NASL
    descriptionxtrabackup was updated to 2.1.8 : Disabled the
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-06-13
    plugin id75289
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75289
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : xtrabackup (openSUSE-SU-2014:0363-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-207.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(75289);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2029");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : xtrabackup (openSUSE-SU-2014:0363-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2014-207 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"xtrabackup was updated to 2.1.8 :

Disabled the 'binary version check' functionality in the VersionCheck
module due to security concerns. The automatic version check remains
disabled in the openSUSE package. [bnc#864194] CVE-2014-2029 More bugs
fixed :

  - do not discard read-ahead buffers through incorrect
    usage of posic_fadvise() hints, which resulted in higher
    I/O rate on the backup stage

  - Spurious trailing data blocks that would normally be
    ignored by InnoDB could lead to an assertion failure on
    the backup stage

  - A spurious warning message could cause issues with
    third-party wrapper scripts

  - xbcrypt could fail with the xbcrypt:xb_crypt_read_chunk:
    unable to read chunk iv size at offset error under some
    circumstances

  - xbstream could sometimes hang when extracting a broken
    or incomplete input stream"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864194"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00033.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected xtrabackup packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/03/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-2.1.8-21.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-debuginfo-2.1.8-21.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-debugsource-2.1.8-21.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xtrabackup");
}
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-184.NASL
    descriptionpercona-toolkit and xtrabackup were updated : - disable automatic version check for all tools [bnc#864194] Prevents transmission of version information to an external host in the default configuration. CVE-2014-2029 Can be used by owner of a Percona Server (or an attacker who can control this destination for the client) to collect arbitrary MySQL configuration parameters and execute commands (with -v). Now the version check needs to be requested via command line or global/tool specific/user configuration. (--version-check) - added /etc/percona-toolkit/percona-toolkit.conf configuration directory and template configuration file
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-06-13
    plugin id75277
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75277
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : percona-toolkit / xtrabackup (openSUSE-SU-2014:0333-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-184.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(75277);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2029");
  script_bugtraq_id(65621);

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : percona-toolkit / xtrabackup (openSUSE-SU-2014:0333-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2014-184 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"percona-toolkit and xtrabackup were updated :

  - disable automatic version check for all tools
    [bnc#864194] Prevents transmission of version
    information to an external host in the default
    configuration. CVE-2014-2029 Can be used by owner of a
    Percona Server (or an attacker who can control this
    destination for the client) to collect arbitrary MySQL
    configuration parameters and execute commands (with -v).
    Now the version check needs to be requested via command
    line or global/tool specific/user configuration.
    (--version-check)

  - added /etc/percona-toolkit/percona-toolkit.conf
    configuration directory and template configuration file"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864194"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00010.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected percona-toolkit / xtrabackup packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:U/RC:ND");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  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:novell:opensuse:percona-toolkit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/02/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"percona-toolkit-2.2.7-2.10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-2.1.7-13.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-debuginfo-2.1.7-13.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"xtrabackup-debugsource-2.1.7-13.2") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "percona-toolkit / xtrabackup");
}

References