Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Published: 2016-06-08
Updated: 2024-11-21
Summary
Symantec Embedded Security: Critical System Protection (SES:CSP) 1.0.x before 1.0 MP5, Embedded Security: Critical System Protection for Controllers and Devices (SES:CSP) 6.5.0 before MP1, Critical System Protection (SCSP) before 5.2.9 MP6, Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server (DCS:SA) 6.x before 6.5 MP1 and 6.6 before MP1, and Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server and Agents (DCS:SA) through 6.6 MP1 allow remote authenticated users to conduct argument-injection attacks by leveraging certain named-pipe access.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
- 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.
Nessus
NASL family | Windows |
NASL id | SYMANTEC_CRITICAL_SYSTEM_PROTECTION_SYM15-001.NASL |
description | The version of Symantec Critical System Protection (SCSP) installed on the remote Windows host is 5.2.9.x prior to 5.2.9 MP6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Management Server Agent Control Interface due to improper sanitization of user-uploaded files. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by uploading a log file, to execute arbitrary script code with the privileges of the web server. (CVE-2014-3440) - A SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability exists in the management server due to the /sis-ui/authenticate script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 80911 |
published | 2015-01-22 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/80911 |
title | Symantec Critical System Protection 5.2.9.x < 5.2.9 MP6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYM15-001 / SYM16-009) |