Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-1200 - Race Condition vulnerability in PXZ Project PXZ 4.999.99
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Race condition in pxz 4.999.99 Beta 3 uses weak file permissions for the output file when compressing a file before changing the permission to match the original file, which allows local users to bypass the intended access restrictions.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-07FCBFDDBD.NASL description - Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing `export XZ_OPT= last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2020-04-30 plugin id 136148 published 2020-04-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136148 title Fedora 31 : pxz (2020-07fcbfddbd) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-07fcbfddbd. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136148); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-1200"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2020-07fcbfddbd"); script_name(english:"Fedora 31 : pxz (2020-07fcbfddbd)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing `export XZ_OPT='-9'` or similar 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-07fcbfddbd" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected pxz package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pxz"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/01/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/04/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^31([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 31", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC31", reference:"pxz-4.999.9-19.beta.20200421git.fc31")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_NOTE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pxz"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-C9EB911737.NASL description - Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing `export XZ_OPT= last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2020-05-04 plugin id 136300 published 2020-05-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136300 title Fedora 30 : pxz (2020-c9eb911737)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/177
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/177
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72101
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72101
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100207
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100207
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C3UCBCIN6M5EXFET4RGQTVSSL5S57XCH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C3UCBCIN6M5EXFET4RGQTVSSL5S57XCH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IBKV7AT6O3FGQ735PFOGQ4Q5VODMSHE5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IBKV7AT6O3FGQ735PFOGQ4Q5VODMSHE5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XDCG7YJRDOR66V3WJDQPLMFSDULQDADC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XDCG7YJRDOR66V3WJDQPLMFSDULQDADC/