Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-6256 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Nvidia GPU Driver

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
nvidia
microsoft
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and used as the index to an array which may lead to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nvidia
1
OS
Microsoft
1

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 familyWindows
NASL idNVIDIA_WIN_CVE_2017_4525.NASL
descriptionNvidia GPU Display driver vulnerabilities may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of Privileges. To exploit these vulnerabilities an attacker would send a malicious request to an affected application or interact with an affected application. If successfully exploited, these vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition or elevated privileges.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id102783
published2017-08-26
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102783
titleNVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver 375.x < 377.55 / 384.x < 384.94 / 385.x < 385.08 Multiple Vulnerabilities
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(102783);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/12");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2017-6251",
    "CVE-2017-6252",
    "CVE-2017-6253",
    "CVE-2017-6254",
    "CVE-2017-6255",
    "CVE-2017-6256",
    "CVE-2017-6257",
    "CVE-2017-6259",
    "CVE-2017-6260"
  );

  script_name(english:"NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver 375.x < 377.55 / 384.x < 384.94 / 385.x < 385.08 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the driver version.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A display driver installed on the remote Windows host is affected by
multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Nvidia GPU Display driver vulnerabilities may lead to denial of 
service or possible escalation of Privileges. To exploit these 
vulnerabilities an attacker would send a malicious request to an 
affected application or interact with an affected application. If 
successfully exploited, these vulnerabilities would allow an 
attacker to cause a denial of service condition or elevated 
privileges.");
  # https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4525
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b3f0ec60");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the NVIDIA graphics driver to version 377.55 / 384.94 / 385.08 or
later in accordance with the vendor advisory.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/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:L/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:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/07/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/07/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/08/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:nvidia:gpu_driver");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Windows");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("wmi_enum_display_drivers.nbin");
  script_require_keys("WMI/DisplayDrivers/NVIDIA", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

kb_base = 'WMI/DisplayDrivers/';

# double check in case optimization is disabled
kbs = get_kb_list(kb_base + '*/Name');
if (isnull(kbs)) exit(0, 'No display drivers were found.');

report = '';

foreach kb (keys(kbs))
{
  name = kbs[kb];
  # only check NVIDIA drivers
  if ("NVIDIA" >!< name) continue;

  nvidia_found = TRUE;
  id = kb - kb_base - '/Name';
  version = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base + id + '/Version');
  driver_date = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base + id + '/DriverDate');

  disp_driver_date = driver_date;

  # convert to something we can pass to ver_compare (YYYY.MM.DD)
  driver_date = split(driver_date, sep:'/', keep:FALSE);
  driver_date = driver_date[2] + '.' + driver_date[0] + '.' + driver_date[1];

  fix = '';
  note = '';
  # R375 Branch includes 375.x, 376.x, 377.x - http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-branch-history-table.html
  if (version =~ "^37[567]\." && ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"377.55", strict:FALSE) == -1)
    fix = '377.35';

  # R384 Branch includes 385.x
  if (version =~ "^38[45]\." && ver_compare(ver:version, fix:"385.08", strict:FALSE) == -1)
  {
    fix = '385.08';
    note = '\n\nGeForce Series has the fix 384.94 includes GFE 3.7.0.81';
  }
  if (!empty(fix))
  {
    order = make_list('Device name','Driver version','Driver date','Fixed version');
    report = make_array(
      order[0],name,
      order[1],version,
      order[2],disp_driver_date,
      order[3],fix
      );

    report = report_items_str(report_items:report, ordered_fields:order);
    break;
  }
}

if (!nvidia_found) exit(0, 'No NVIDIA display drivers were found.');

if (!empty(report))
  security_report_v4(severity:SECURITY_HOLE, port:0, extra:report+note);
else
  exit(0, "No vulnerable NVIDIA display drivers were found.");