Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8549 - XXE vulnerability in Pyamf

047910
CVSS 5.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
pyamf
CWE-611
nessus

Summary

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in PyAMF before 0.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or read arbitrary files via a crafted Action Message Format (AMF) payload.

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_1FBD6DB1A4E411E5B86414DAE9D210B8.NASL
descriptionoCERT reports : A specially crafted AMF payload, containing malicious references to XML external entities, can be used to trigger Denial of Service (DoS) conditions or arbitrarily return the contents of files that are accessible with the running application privileges.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id87480
published2015-12-18
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87480
titleFreeBSD : py-amf -- input sanitization errors (1fbd6db1-a4e4-11e5-b864-14dae9d210b8)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(87480);
  script_version("2.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8549");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : py-amf -- input sanitization errors (1fbd6db1-a4e4-11e5-b864-14dae9d210b8)");
  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:
"oCERT reports :

A specially crafted AMF payload, containing malicious references to
XML external entities, can be used to trigger Denial of Service (DoS)
conditions or arbitrarily return the contents of files that are
accessible with the running application privileges."
  );
  # http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-011.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-011.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/1fbd6db1-a4e4-11e5-b864-14dae9d210b8.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?aa2a9f7b"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-amf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py32-amf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py33-amf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py34-amf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/12/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 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:"py27-amf<0.8.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py32-amf<0.8.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py33-amf<0.8.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py34-amf<0.8.0")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");