Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-15220 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Flexense VX Search 10.1.12

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
flexense
CWE-119
exploit available

Summary

Flexense VX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via an empty POST request to a long URI beginning with a /../ substring. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Flexense
1

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.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Exploit-Db

descriptionVX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 - Buffer Overflow. CVE-2017-15220. Remote exploit for Windows platform
fileexploits/windows/remote/42973.py
idEDB-ID:42973
last seen2017-10-11
modified2017-10-09
platformwindows
port
published2017-10-09
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/42973/
titleVX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 - Buffer Overflow
typeremote

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/144589/vxsearchent10112-overflow.txt
idPACKETSTORM:144589
last seen2017-10-13
published2017-10-12
reporterRevnic Vasile
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144589/VX-Search-Enterprise-10.1.12-Buffer-Overflow.html
titleVX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 Buffer Overflow