Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12873 - Session Fixation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
simplesamlphp
debian
CWE-384
critical
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-09-01
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

SimpleSAMLphp 1.7.0 through 1.14.10 might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information, gain unauthorized access, or have unspecified other impacts by leveraging incorrect persistent NameID generation when an Identity Provider (IdP) is misconfigured.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Simplesamlphp
48
OS
Debian
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Session Credential Falsification through Forging
    An attacker creates a false but functional session credential in order to gain or usurp access to a service. Session credentials allow users to identify themselves to a service after an initial authentication without needing to resend the authentication information (usually a username and password) with every message. If an attacker is able to forge valid session credentials they may be able to bypass authentication or piggy-back off some other authenticated user's session. This attack differs from Reuse of Session IDs and Session Sidejacking attacks in that in the latter attacks an attacker uses a previous or existing credential without modification while, in a forging attack, the attacker must create their own credential, although it may be based on previously observed credentials.
  • Exploitation of Session Variables, Resource IDs and other Trusted Credentials
    Attacks on session IDs and resource IDs take advantage of the fact that some software accepts user input without verifying its authenticity. For example, a message queuing system that allows service requesters to post messages to its queue through an open channel (such as anonymous FTP), authorization is done through checking group or role membership contained in the posted message. However, there is no proof that the message itself, the information in the message (such group or role membership), or indeed the process that wrote the message to the queue are authentic and authorized to do so. Many server side processes are vulnerable to these attacks because the server to server communications have not been analyzed from a security perspective or the processes "trust" other systems because they are behind a firewall. In a similar way servers that use easy to guess or spoofable schemes for representing digital identity can also be vulnerable. Such systems frequently use schemes without cryptography and digital signatures (or with broken cryptography). Session IDs may be guessed due to insufficient randomness, poor protection (passed in the clear), lack of integrity (unsigned), or improperly correlation with access control policy enforcement points. Exposed configuration and properties files that contain system passwords, database connection strings, and such may also give an attacker an edge to identify these identifiers. The net result is that spoofing and impersonation is possible leading to an attacker's ability to break authentication, authorization, and audit controls on the system.
  • Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    This attack relies on the use of HTTP Cookies to store credentials, state information and other critical data on client systems. The first form of this attack involves accessing HTTP Cookies to mine for potentially sensitive data contained therein. The second form of this attack involves intercepting this data as it is transmitted from client to server. This intercepted information is then used by the attacker to impersonate the remote user/session. The third form is when the cookie's content is modified by the attacker before it is sent back to the server. Here the attacker seeks to convince the target server to operate on this falsified information.
  • Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    In circumstances where an application holds important data client-side in tokens (cookies, URLs, data files, and so forth) that data can be manipulated. If client or server-side application components reinterpret that data as authentication tokens or data (such as store item pricing or wallet information) then even opaquely manipulating that data may bear fruit for an Attacker. In this pattern an attacker undermines the assumption that client side tokens have been adequately protected from tampering through use of encryption or obfuscation.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-4127.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in SimpleSAMLphp, a framework for authentication, primarily via the SAML protocol. - CVE-2017-12867 Attackers with access to a secret token could extend its validity period by manipulating the prepended time offset. - CVE-2017-12869 When using the multiauth module, attackers can bypass authentication context restrictions and use any authentication source defined in the config. - CVE-2017-12873 Defensive measures have been taken to prevent the administrator from misconfiguring persistent NameIDs to avoid identifier clash. (Affects Debian 8 Jessie only.) - CVE-2017-12874 The InfoCard module could accept incorrectly signed XML messages in rare occasions. - CVE-2017-18121 The consentAdmin module was vulnerable to a Cross-Site Scripting attack, allowing an attacker to craft links that could execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the victim
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id107119
    published2018-03-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/107119
    titleDebian DSA-4127-1 : simplesamlphp - security update
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4127. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(107119);
  script_version("3.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:46");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12867", "CVE-2017-12869", "CVE-2017-12873", "CVE-2017-12874", "CVE-2017-18121", "CVE-2017-18122", "CVE-2018-6519", "CVE-2018-6521", "CVE-2018-7644");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4127");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4127-1 : simplesamlphp - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in SimpleSAMLphp, a
framework for authentication, primarily via the SAML protocol.

  - CVE-2017-12867
    Attackers with access to a secret token could extend its
    validity period by manipulating the prepended time
    offset.

  - CVE-2017-12869
    When using the multiauth module, attackers can bypass
    authentication context restrictions and use any
    authentication source defined in the config.

  - CVE-2017-12873
    Defensive measures have been taken to prevent the
    administrator from misconfiguring persistent NameIDs to
    avoid identifier clash. (Affects Debian 8 Jessie only.)

  - CVE-2017-12874
    The InfoCard module could accept incorrectly signed XML
    messages in rare occasions.

  - CVE-2017-18121
    The consentAdmin module was vulnerable to a Cross-Site
    Scripting attack, allowing an attacker to craft links
    that could execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the
    victim's browser.

  - CVE-2017-18122
    The (deprecated) SAML 1.1 implementation would regard as
    valid any unsigned SAML response containing more than
    one signed assertion, provided that the signature of at
    least one of the assertions was valid, allowing an
    attacker that could obtain a valid signed assertion from
    an IdP to impersonate users from that IdP.

  - CVE-2018-6519
    Regular expression denial of service when parsing
    extraordinarily long timestamps.

  - CVE-2018-6521
    Change sqlauth module MySQL charset from utf8 to utf8mb
    to prevent theoretical query truncation that could allow
    remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions

  - CVE-2018-7644
    Critical signature validation vulnerability."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889286"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12867"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12869"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12873"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12874"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18121"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18122"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6519"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6521"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7644"
  );
  # https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/simplesamlphp
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b2a51c10"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/simplesamlphp"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/simplesamlphp"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4127"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the simplesamlphp packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.13.1-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.14.11-1+deb9u1."
  );
  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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:simplesamlphp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/03/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/03/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"simplesamlphp", reference:"1.13.1-2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"simplesamlphp", reference:"1.14.11-1+deb9u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1205.NASL
    descriptionThe simplesamlphp package in wheezy is vulnerable to multiple attacks on authentication-related code, leading to unauthorized access and information disclosure. CVE-2017-12867 The SimpleSAML_Auth_TimeLimitedToken class allows attackers with access to a secret token to extend its validity period by manipulating the prepended time offset. CVE-2017-12869 The multiauth module allows remote attackers to bypass authentication context restrictions and use an authentication source defined in config/authsources.php via vectors related to improper validation of user input. CVE-2017-12872 / CVE-2017-12868 The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote iattackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input. CVE-2017-12868 was a about an improper fix of CVE-2017-12872 in the initial patch released by upstream. We have used the correct patch. CVE-2017-12873 SimpleSAMLphp might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information, gain unauthorized access, or have unspecified other impacts by leveraging incorrect persistent NameID generation when an Identity Provider (IdP) is misconfigured. CVE-2017-12874 The InfoCard module for SimpleSAMLphp allows attackers to spoof XML messages by leveraging an incorrect check of return values in signature validation utilities. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2017-12-13
    plugin id105193
    published2017-12-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105193
    titleDebian DLA-1205-1 : simplesamlphp security update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1205-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(105193);
  script_version("3.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12867", "CVE-2017-12868", "CVE-2017-12869", "CVE-2017-12872", "CVE-2017-12873", "CVE-2017-12874");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1205-1 : simplesamlphp security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The simplesamlphp package in wheezy is vulnerable to multiple attacks
on authentication-related code, leading to unauthorized access and
information disclosure.

CVE-2017-12867

The SimpleSAML_Auth_TimeLimitedToken class allows attackers with
access to a secret token to extend its validity period by manipulating
the prepended time offset.

CVE-2017-12869

The multiauth module allows remote attackers to bypass authentication
context restrictions and use an authentication source defined in
config/authsources.php via vectors related to improper validation of
user input.

CVE-2017-12872 / CVE-2017-12868

The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2)
SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow
remote iattackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging
use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material
against user input.

CVE-2017-12868 was a about an improper fix of CVE-2017-12872
in the initial patch released by upstream. We have used the
correct patch.

CVE-2017-12873

SimpleSAMLphp might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information,
gain unauthorized access, or have unspecified other impacts by
leveraging incorrect persistent NameID generation when an Identity
Provider (IdP) is misconfigured.

CVE-2017-12874

The InfoCard module for SimpleSAMLphp allows attackers to spoof XML
messages by leveraging an incorrect check of return values in
signature validation utilities.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
1.9.2-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your simplesamlphp packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/simplesamlphp"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected simplesamlphp package."
  );
  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:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:simplesamlphp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/12/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/12/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"simplesamlphp", reference:"1.9.2-1+deb7u1")) flag++;

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

References