Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12588 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in Rsyslog
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The zmq3 input and output modules in rsyslog before 8.28.0 interpreted description fields as format strings, possibly allowing a format string attack with unspecified impact.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Format String Injection An attacker includes formatting characters in a string input field on the target application. Most applications assume that users will provide static text and may respond unpredictably to the presence of formatting character. For example, in certain functions of the C programming languages such as printf, the formatting character %s will print the contents of a memory location expecting this location to identify a string and the formatting character %n prints the number of DWORD written in the memory. An attacker can use this to read or write to memory locations or files, or simply to manipulate the value of the resulting text in unexpected ways. Reading or writing memory may result in program crashes and writing memory could result in the execution of arbitrary code if the attacker can write to the program stack.
- String Format Overflow in syslog() This attack targets the format string vulnerabilities in the syslog() function. An attacker would typically inject malicious input in the format string parameter of the syslog function. This is a common problem, and many public vulnerabilities and associated exploits have been posted.
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0030_RSYSLOG.NASL description An update of the rsyslog package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121726 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121726 title Photon OS 1.0: Rsyslog PHSA-2017-0030 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0030. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include('compat.inc'); if (description) { script_id(121726); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2019/02/07"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12588"); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Rsyslog PHSA-2017-0030"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of the rsyslog package has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-63.md"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected Linux packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-12424"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/08/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:rsyslog"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"rsyslog-8.15.0-6.ph1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"rsyslog-debuginfo-8.15.0-6.ph1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, 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, "rsyslog"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0030.NASL description An update of [rsyslog,shadow] packages for PhotonOS has been released. last seen 2019-02-08 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111879 published 2018-08-17 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111879 title Photon OS 1.0: Rsyslog / Shadow PHSA-2017-0030 (deprecated) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # @DEPRECATED@ # # Disabled on 2/7/2019 # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0030. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111879); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/02/07 18:59:50"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12424", "CVE-2017-12588"); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Rsyslog / Shadow PHSA-2017-0030 (deprecated)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "This plugin has been deprecated."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of [rsyslog,shadow] packages for PhotonOS has been released."); # https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-63 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?26282c92"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"n/a."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-12424"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:rsyslog"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:shadow"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } exit(0, "This plugin has been deprecated."); 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/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = [ "rsyslog-8.15.0-6.ph1", "rsyslog-debuginfo-8.15.0-6.ph1", "shadow-4.2.1-11.ph1", "shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-11.ph1" ]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, 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, "rsyslog / shadow"); }