Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-14635 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Otrs

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
otrs
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

In Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 3.3.x before 3.3.18, 4.x before 4.0.25, and 5.x before 5.0.23, remote authenticated users can leverage statistics-write permissions to gain privileges via code injection.

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 Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • 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.

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1119.NASL
    descriptionAn attacker who is logged into OTRS, a Ticket Request System, as an agent with write permissions for statistics can inject arbitrary code into the system. This can lead to serious problems like privilege escalation, data loss, and denial of service. This issue is also known as CVE-2017-14635 and is resolved by upgrading to the latest upstream release of OTRS3. ****IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTES**** =============================== This update requires manual intervention. We strongly recommend to backup all files and databases before upgrading. If you use the MySQL backend you should read Debian bug report #707075 and the included README.Debian file which will provide further information. If you discover that the maintenance mode is still activated after the update, we recommend to remove /etc/otrs/maintenance.html and /var/lib/otrs/httpd/htdocs/maintenance.html which will resolve the issue . In addition the following security vulnerabilities were also addressed : CVE-2014-1695 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OTRS allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML email CVE-2014-2553 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OTRS allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to dynamic fields CVE-2014-2554 OTRS allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via an IFRAME element For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2017-10-02
    plugin id103577
    published2017-10-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103577
    titleDebian DLA-1119-1 : otrs2 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-1119-1. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(103577);
      script_version("3.6");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1695", "CVE-2014-2553", "CVE-2014-2554", "CVE-2017-14635");
      script_bugtraq_id(65844, 66567, 66569);
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1119-1 : otrs2 security update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "An attacker who is logged into OTRS, a Ticket Request System, as an
    agent with write permissions for statistics can inject arbitrary code
    into the system. This can lead to serious problems like privilege
    escalation, data loss, and denial of service. This issue is also known
    as CVE-2017-14635 and is resolved by upgrading to the latest upstream
    release of OTRS3.
    
    ****IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTES**** ===============================
    
    This update requires manual intervention. We strongly recommend to
    backup all files and databases before upgrading. If you use the MySQL
    backend you should read Debian bug report #707075 and the included
    README.Debian file which will provide further information.
    
    If you discover that the maintenance mode is still activated after the
    update, we recommend to remove /etc/otrs/maintenance.html and
    /var/lib/otrs/httpd/htdocs/maintenance.html which will resolve the
    issue .
    
    In addition the following security vulnerabilities were also 
    addressed :
    
    CVE-2014-1695 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OTRS allows
    remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted
    HTML email
    
    CVE-2014-2553 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OTRS allows
    remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via
    vectors related to dynamic fields
    
    CVE-2014-2554 OTRS allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking
    attacks via an IFRAME element
    
    For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
    3.3.18-1~deb7u1.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your otrs2 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/2017/09/msg00036.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/otrs2"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Upgrade the affected otrs, and otrs2 packages."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:otrs");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:otrs2");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/30");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/10/02");
      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:"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:"otrs", reference:"3.3.18-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"otrs2", reference:"3.3.18-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-4021.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that missing input validation in the Open Ticket Request System could result in privilege escalation by an agent with write permissions for statistics.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id104441
    published2017-11-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/104441
    titleDebian DSA-4021-1 : otrs2 - security update
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4021. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(104441);
      script_version("3.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:38");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-14635");
      script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4021");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4021-1 : otrs2 - 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:
    "It was discovered that missing input validation in the Open Ticket
    Request System could result in privilege escalation by an agent with
    write permissions for statistics."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/otrs2"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/otrs2"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4021"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "Upgrade the otrs2 packages.
    
    For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
    in version 3.3.18-1+deb8u1.
    
    For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 5.0.16-1+deb9u2."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:otrs2");
      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:"2017/11/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/08");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 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:"otrs", reference:"3.3.18-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"otrs2", reference:"3.3.18-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"otrs", reference:"5.0.16-1+deb9u2")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"otrs2", reference:"5.0.16-1+deb9u2")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyCGI abuses
    NASL idOTRS_OSA_2017_04.NASL
    descriptionThe version of OTRS running on the remote host is 3.3.x prior to 3.3.18, 4.0.x prior to 4.0.25, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.23 or 6.0.x prior to 6.0.beta2. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id105155
    published2017-12-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105155
    titleOTRS Unspecified Remote Code Execution (OSA-2017-04)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(105155);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-14635");
    
      script_name(english:"OTRS Unspecified Remote Code Execution (OSA-2017-04)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks the product version.");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "A service management application running on the remote host is affected by
    a remote code execution vulnerability.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "The version of OTRS running on the remote host is 3.3.x prior to 
    3.3.18, 4.0.x prior to 4.0.25, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.23 or 6.0.x prior
    to 6.0.beta2. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution 
    vulnerability.");
      # https://www.otrs.com/security-advisory-2017-04-security-update-otrs-versions/
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b75d8fec");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Upgrade to OTRS version 3.3.18 / 4.0.25 / 5.0.23 / 6.0.beta2 or later.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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:L/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-2017-14635");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/09/19");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/19");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/12/11");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:otrs:otrs");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"CGI abuses");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("otrs_detect.nbin");
      script_require_ports("Services/www", 80, 443);
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    include("http.inc");
    include("vcf.inc");
    
    port = get_http_port(default:80);
    app = vcf::get_app_info(app:"OTRS Web", webapp:TRUE, port:port);
    if (app.version !~ "^3\.3" && app.version !~ "^[456]\.0") 
      audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_WEB_APP_VER, app.app, build_url(port:app.port, qs:app.path));
    
    constraints = 
    [
      {"min_version" : "3.3.0", "fixed_version" : "3.3.18"},
      {"min_version" : "4.0.0", "fixed_version" : "4.0.25"},
      {"min_version" : "5.0.0", "fixed_version" : "5.0.23"},
      {"min_version" : "6.0.0.beta1", "fixed_version" : "6.0.0.beta2"}
    ];
    
    vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING, strict:FALSE);
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-1117.NASL
    descriptionThis update for otrs to version 3.3.18 fixes the following issue : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2017-14635: Remote authenticated users could have leveraged statistics-write permissions to gain privileges via code injection (bsc#1059691).
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-10-03
    plugin id103624
    published2017-10-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103624
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : otrs (openSUSE-2017-1117)