Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-2349 - Command Injection vulnerability in Juniper Junos

047910
CVSS 9.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
juniper
CWE-77
critical
nessus

Summary

A command injection vulnerability in the IDP feature of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX series devices potentially allows a user with login access to the device to execute shell commands and elevate privileges. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.1X44 prior to 12.1X44-D60; 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D50; 12.1X47 prior to 12.1X47-D30, 12.1X47-D35; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D20, 12.3X48-D30; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D20, 15.1X49-D30.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cause Web Server Misclassification
    An attack of this type exploits a Web server's decision to take action based on filename or file extension. Because different file types are handled by different server processes, misclassification may force the Web server to take unexpected action, or expected actions in an unexpected sequence. This may cause the server to exhaust resources, supply debug or system data to the attacker, or bind an attacker to a remote process. This type of vulnerability has been found in many widely used servers including IIS, Lotus Domino, and Orion. The attacker's job in this case is straightforward, standard communication protocols and methods are used and are generally appended with malicious information at the tail end of an otherwise legitimate request. The attack payload varies, but it could be special characters like a period or simply appending a tag that has a special meaning for operations on the server side like .jsp for a java application server. The essence of this attack is that the attacker deceives the server into executing functionality based on the name of the request, i.e. login.jsp, not the contents.
  • LDAP Injection
    An attacker manipulates or crafts an LDAP query for the purpose of undermining the security of the target. Some applications use user input to create LDAP queries that are processed by an LDAP server. For example, a user might provide their username during authentication and the username might be inserted in an LDAP query during the authentication process. An attacker could use this input to inject additional commands into an LDAP query that could disclose sensitive information. For example, entering a * in the aforementioned query might return information about all users on the system. This attack is very similar to an SQL injection attack in that it manipulates a query to gather additional information or coerce a particular return value.
  • Command Delimiters
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that allows an attacker's commands to be concatenated onto a legitimate command with the intent of targeting other resources such as the file system or database. The system that uses a filter or a blacklist input validation, as opposed to whitelist validation is vulnerable to an attacker who predicts delimiters (or combinations of delimiters) not present in the filter or blacklist. As with other injection attacks, the attacker uses the command delimiter payload as an entry point to tunnel through the application and activate additional attacks through SQL queries, shell commands, network scanning, and so on.
  • 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.
  • Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    An attacker supplies the target software with input data that contains sequences of special characters designed to bypass input validation logic. This exploit relies on the target making multiples passes over the input data and processing a "layer" of special characters with each pass. In this manner, the attacker can disguise input that would otherwise be rejected as invalid by concealing it with layers of special/escape characters that are stripped off by subsequent processing steps. The goal is to first discover cases where the input validation layer executes before one or more parsing layers. That is, user input may go through the following logic in an application: In such cases, the attacker will need to provide input that will pass through the input validator, but after passing through parser2, will be converted into something that the input validator was supposed to stop.

Nessus

NASL familyJunos Local Security Checks
NASL idJUNIPER_JSA10801.NASL
descriptionAccording to its self-reported version and model number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a remote command injection vulnerability in the IDP feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id102076
published2017-07-31
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102076
titleJuniper Junos SRX IDP Remote Command Injection (JSA10801)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(102076);
  script_version ("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/12 19:01:16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-2349");
  script_xref(name:"JSA", value:"JSA10801");

  script_name(english:"Juniper Junos SRX IDP Remote Command Injection (JSA10801)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the Junos version and model.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is affected by a remote command injection
vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version and model number, the remote
Juniper Junos device is affected by a remote command injection
vulnerability in the IDP feature due to improper validation of
user-supplied input. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit
this to execute arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10801");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to the relevant Junos software release referenced in Juniper
security advisory JSA10801.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  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:C/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:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/07/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/07/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/07/31");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:juniper:junos");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Junos Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("junos_version.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version", "Host/Juniper/model");

  exit(0);
}

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

ver   = get_kb_item_or_exit('Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version');
model = get_kb_item_or_exit('Host/Juniper/model');

if (model !~ "^SRX")
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'a SRX device');

fixes = make_array();

fixes['12.1X44'] = '12.1X44-D60';
fixes['12.1X46'] = '12.1X46-D50';
fixes['12.1X47'] = '12.1X47-D30';
fixes['12.3X48'] = '12.3X48-D20';
fixes['15.1X49'] = '15.1X49-D20';

fix = check_junos(ver:ver, fixes:fixes, exit_on_fail:TRUE);

junos_report(ver:ver, fix:fix, model:model, severity:SECURITY_HOLE);