Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5637 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Two four letter word commands "wchp/wchc" are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on Apache ZooKeeper server if abused, which leads to the server unable to serve legitimate client requests. Apache ZooKeeper thru version 3.4.9 and 3.5.2 suffer from this issue, fixed in 3.4.10, 3.5.3, and later.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 13 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Choosing a Message/Channel Identifier on a Public/Multicast Channel Attackers aware that more data is being fed into a multicast or public information distribution means can 'select' information bound only for another client, even if the distribution means itself forces users to authenticate in order to connect initially. Doing so allows the attacker to gain access to possibly privileged information, possibly perpetrate other attacks through the distribution means by impersonation. If the channel/message being manipulated is an input rather than output mechanism for the system, (such as a command bus), this style of attack could change its identifier from a less privileged to more so privileged channel or command.
- Using Unpublished Web Service APIs An attacker searches for and invokes Web Services APIs that the target system designers did not intend to be publicly available. If these APIs fail to authenticate requests the attacker may be able to invoke services and/or gain privileges they are not authorized for.
- Manipulating Writeable Terminal Devices This attack exploits terminal devices that allow themselves to be written to by other users. The attacker sends command strings to the target terminal device hoping that the target user will hit enter and thereby execute the malicious command with their privileges. The attacker can send the results (such as copying /etc/passwd) to a known directory and collect once the attack has succeeded.
- Cross Site Request Forgery (aka Session Riding) An attacker crafts malicious web links and distributes them (via web pages, email, etc.), typically in a targeted manner, hoping to induce users to click on the link and execute the malicious action against some third-party application. If successful, the action embedded in the malicious link will be processed and accepted by the targeted application with the users' privilege level. This type of attack leverages the persistence and implicit trust placed in user session cookies by many web applications today. In such an architecture, once the user authenticates to an application and a session cookie is created on the user's system, all following transactions for that session are authenticated using that cookie including potential actions initiated by an attacker and simply "riding" the existing session cookie.
Exploit-Db
id | EDB-ID:42294 |
last seen | 2018-11-30 |
modified | 2017-07-02 |
published | 2017-07-02 |
reporter | Exploit-DB |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/42294 |
title | Zookeeper 3.5.2 Client - Denial of Service |
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-986.NASL description It was discovered that Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, didn last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-06-16 plugin id 100816 published 2017-06-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100816 title Debian DLA-986-1 : zookeeper 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-986-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100816); script_version("3.7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5637"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-986-1 : zookeeper 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: "It was discovered that Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, didn't restrict access to the computationally expensive wchp/wchc commands which could result in denial of service by elevated CPU consumption. This update disables those two commands by default. The new configuration option '4lw.commands.whitelist' can be used to whitelist commands selectively (and the full set of commands can be restored with '*') For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your zookeeper 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/2017/06/msg00015.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/zookeeper" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:libzookeeper-java"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper-java-doc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper-mt-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper-mt2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper-st-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper-st2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzookeeper2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-zookeeper"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zookeeper"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zookeeper-bin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zookeeperd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/16"); 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:"libzookeeper-java", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-java-doc", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-mt-dev", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-mt2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-st-dev", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-st2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libzookeeper2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"python-zookeeper", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"zookeeper", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"zookeeper-bin", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"zookeeperd", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+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 family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3871.NASL description It was discovered that Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, didn last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100579 published 2017-06-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100579 title Debian DSA-3871-1 : zookeeper - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3871. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100579); script_version("3.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:38"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5637"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3871"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3871-1 : zookeeper - 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 Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, didn't restrict access to the computationally expensive wchp/wchc commands which could result in denial of service by elevated CPU consumption. This update disables those two commands by default. The new configuration option '4lw.commands.whitelist' can be used to whitelist commands selectively (and the full set of commands can be restored with '*')" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/zookeeper" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3871" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the zookeeper packages. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:zookeeper"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/01"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/02"); 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:"libzookeeper-java", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-java-doc", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-mt-dev", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-mt2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-st-dev", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper-st2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libzookeeper2", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python-zookeeper", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"zookeeper", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"zookeeper-bin", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"zookeeperd", reference:"3.4.5+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) 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 family Misc. NASL id APACHE_ZOOKEEPER_3_5_3.NASL description The version of Apache ZooKeeper listening on the remote host is prior to 3.4.10 or 3.5.x prior to 3.5.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A buffer overflow vulnerability in the C cli shell. Using the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125634 published 2019-05-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125634 title Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 < 3.4.10 / 3.5.x < 3.5.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(125634); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/06/04 9:45:00"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5017", "CVE-2017-5637"); script_bugtraq_id(93044,98814); script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2019-B-0041"); script_name(english:"Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 < 3.4.10 / 3.5.x < 3.5.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks ZooKeeper version"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Apache ZooKeeper server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Apache ZooKeeper listening on the remote host is prior to 3.4.10 or 3.5.x prior to 3.5.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A buffer overflow vulnerability in the C cli shell. Using the 'cmd:' batch mode syntax allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via a long command string. (CVE-2016-5017) - A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in due to two four letter word commands which cause CPU spikes on ZooKeeper server. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to stop responding. (CVE-2017-5637)"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://zookeeper.apache.org/security.html"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update to Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.10 or 3.5.3 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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:H/PR:N/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-5017"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/09/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/09/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:apache:zookeeper"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Misc."); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("apache_zookeeper_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("Settings/ParanoidReport"); script_require_ports("Services/zookeeper", 2181); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("vcf.inc"); port = get_service(svc:"zookeeper", default:2181, exit_on_fail:TRUE); app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:"Apache Zookeeper", port:port, service:TRUE); # Paranoid because patch exists unrelated to version if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID); constraints = [ { "fixed_version" : "3.4.10"}, { "min_version" : "3.5.0", "fixed_version" : "3.5.3" } ]; vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_AF61B2719E474DB0A0F629FB032236A3.NASL description zookeeper developers report : Two four letter word commands last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103762 published 2017-10-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103762 title FreeBSD : zookeeper -- Denial Of Service (af61b271-9e47-4db0-a0f6-29fb032236a3)
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References
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2693
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98814
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3871
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3355
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3354
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2477
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/58170aeb7a681d462b7fa31cae81110cbb749d2dc83c5736a0bb8370%40%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bcce5a9c532b386c68dab2f6b3ce8b0cc9b950ec551766e76391caa3%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rca37935d661f4689cb4119f1b3b224413b22be161b678e6e6ce0c69b%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E