Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-6232 - Path Traversal vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in KArchive before 5.24, as used in KDE Frameworks, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a filename in an archive file, related to KNewsstuff downloads.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 3 | |
Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-4F4EEF4791.NASL description This kdelibs3 (KDE 3 compatibility libraries) update fixes the security issues : - CVE-2016-6232 (karchive): Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations - CVE-2017-6410 (kio): Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file for the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. (Security updates for KDE Frameworks 5 (kf5-karchive resp. kf5-kio) and for the KDE 4 compatibility libraries (kdelibs 4) have already been submitted.) In addition, the KDE 3 compatibility version of KCrash was modified to use the DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4. (The original KDE 3 DrKonqi was already dropped years ago.) The kde-runtime 4 DrKonqi is not installed by default and will be removed entirely in future Fedora versions, the Plasma 5 version of DrKonqi can also be used for legacy applications. 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-03-13 plugin id 97678 published 2017-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97678 title Fedora 25 : kdelibs3 (2017-4f4eef4791) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2017-4f4eef4791. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(97678); script_version("3.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6232", "CVE-2017-6410"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-4f4eef4791"); script_name(english:"Fedora 25 : kdelibs3 (2017-4f4eef4791)"); 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: "This kdelibs3 (KDE 3 compatibility libraries) update fixes the security issues : - CVE-2016-6232 (karchive): Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations - CVE-2017-6410 (kio): Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file for the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. (Security updates for KDE Frameworks 5 (kf5-karchive resp. kf5-kio) and for the KDE 4 compatibility libraries (kdelibs 4) have already been submitted.) In addition, the KDE 3 compatibility version of KCrash was modified to use the DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4. (The original KDE 3 DrKonqi was already dropped years ago.) The kde-runtime 4 DrKonqi is not installed by default and will be removed entirely in future Fedora versions, the Plasma 5 version of DrKonqi can also be used for legacy applications. 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-2017-4f4eef4791" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected kdelibs3 package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/08/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 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:"^25([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 25", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC25", reference:"kdelibs3-3.5.10-84.fc25")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, 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, "kdelibs3"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-904.NASL description This update for karchive fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6232: A remote attacker could have been able to overwrite arbitrary files when tricking the user into downloading KDE extras such as wallpapers or Plasma Applets (boo#989698) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-28 plugin id 92594 published 2016-07-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92594 title openSUSE Security Update : karchive (openSUSE-2016-904) 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-2016-904. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92594); script_version("2.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6232"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : karchive (openSUSE-2016-904)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2016-904 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for karchive fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6232: A remote attacker could have been able to overwrite arbitrary files when tricking the user into downloading KDE extras such as wallpapers or Plasma Applets (boo#989698)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989698" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected karchive packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:karchive-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:karchive-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:karchive-devel-32bit"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libKF5Archive5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libKF5Archive5-32bit"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libKF5Archive5-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libKF5Archive5-debuginfo-32bit"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/07/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/07/28"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); 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\.2|SUSE42\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.2 / 42.1", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"karchive-debugsource-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"karchive-devel-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libKF5Archive5-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libKF5Archive5-debuginfo-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"karchive-devel-32bit-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libKF5Archive5-32bit-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libKF5Archive5-debuginfo-32bit-5.11.0-27.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"karchive-debugsource-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"karchive-devel-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"libKF5Archive5-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"libKF5Archive5-debuginfo-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"karchive-devel-32bit-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libKF5Archive5-32bit-5.21.0-15.1") ) flag++; 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NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3042-1.NASL description Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that KDE-Libs incorrectly handled extracting certain archives. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files out of the extraction directory. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92583 published 2016-07-27 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92583 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 15.10 : kde4libs vulnerability (USN-3042-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-CEF912E3A4.NASL description KDE Frameworks 5.24, see also https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.24.0.php 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-26 plugin id 92549 published 2016-07-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92549 title Fedora 23 : 1:oxygen-icon-theme / breeze-icon-theme / extra-cmake-modules / kf5 / etc (2016-cef912e3a4) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-570.NASL description It was possible to trick kde4libs last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-08-01 plugin id 92634 published 2016-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92634 title Debian DLA-570-1 : kde4libs security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-01EED6FE8C.NASL description This kdelibs3 (KDE 3 compatibility libraries) update fixes the security issues : - CVE-2016-6232 (karchive): Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations - CVE-2017-6410 (kio): Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file for the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. (Security updates for KDE Frameworks 5 (kf5-karchive resp. kf5-kio) and for the KDE 4 compatibility libraries (kdelibs 4) have already been submitted.) In addition, the KDE 3 compatibility version of KCrash was modified to use the DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4. (The original KDE 3 DrKonqi was already dropped years ago.) The kde-runtime 4 DrKonqi is not installed by default and will be removed entirely in future Fedora versions, the Plasma 5 version of DrKonqi can also be used for legacy applications. 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-03-13 plugin id 97672 published 2017-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97672 title Fedora 24 : kdelibs3 (2017-01eed6fe8c) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4100-1.NASL description It was discovered that KConfig and KDE libraries have a vulnerability where an attacker could hide malicious code under desktop and configuration files. (CVE-2019-14744) It was discovered that KConfig allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ in a filename in an archive file. (CVE-2016-6232). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128025 published 2019-08-20 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128025 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 : kconfig, kde4libs vulnerabilities (USN-4100-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-4701636A74.NASL description KDE Frameworks 5.24, see also see also https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.24.0.php 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-25 plugin id 92530 published 2016-07-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92530 title Fedora 24 : 1:oxygen-icon-theme / breeze-icon-theme / extra-cmake-modules / kf5 / etc (2016-4701636a74) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_4472AB396C6611E69CA550E549EBAB6C.NASL description David Faure reports : A maliciously crafted archive (.zip or .tar.bz2) with last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93144 published 2016-08-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93144 title FreeBSD : kdelibs -- directory traversal vulnerability (4472ab39-6c66-11e6-9ca5-50e549ebab6c) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3643.NASL description Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that kde4libs, the core libraries for all KDE 4 applications, do not properly handle the extraction of archives with last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92764 published 2016-08-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92764 title Debian DSA-3643-1 : kde4libs - security update
References
- https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=karchive.git&a=commit&h=0cb243f64eef45565741b27364cece7d5c349c37
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3042-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/16/2
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160724-1.txt
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/16/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91806
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00023.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3643
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4100-1/