Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9526 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Gnupg Libgcrypt
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
In Libgcrypt before 1.7.7, an attacker who learns the EdDSA session key (from side-channel observation during the signing process) can easily recover the long-term secret key. 1.7.7 makes a cipher/ecc-eddsa.c change to store this session key in secure memory, to ensure that constant-time point operations are used in the MPI library.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0040.NASL description An update of [openjdk,openjre,bash,libtar,glibc,libgcrypt,strongswan,unzip] packages for PhotonOS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111889 published 2018-08-17 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111889 title Photon OS 1.0: Bash / Glibc / Libgcrypt / Libtar / Openjdk / Openjre / Strongswan / Unzip PHSA-2017-0040 (deprecated) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # @DEPRECATED@ # # Disabled on 2/7/2019 # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0040. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111889); script_version("1.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/04/05 23:25:07"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2013-4420", "CVE-2014-9844", "CVE-2014-9913", "CVE-2016-0634", "CVE-2016-9844", "CVE-2017-9526", "CVE-2017-10274", "CVE-2017-10285", "CVE-2017-10309", "CVE-2017-10346", "CVE-2017-10388", "CVE-2017-11185", "CVE-2017-12133" ); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Bash / Glibc / Libgcrypt / Libtar / Openjdk / Openjre / Strongswan / Unzip PHSA-2017-0040 (deprecated)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "This plugin has been deprecated."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of [openjdk,openjre,bash,libtar,glibc,libgcrypt,strongswan,unzip] packages for PhotonOS has been released."); # https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-80 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b0fdbe24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"n/a."); 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:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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-2017-10285"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/10/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:bash"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:glibc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:libgcrypt"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:libtar"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:openjdk"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:openjre"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:strongswan"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:unzip"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } exit(0, "This plugin has been deprecated."); include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = [ "bash-4.3.48-1.ph1", "bash-debuginfo-4.3.48-1.ph1", "bash-lang-4.3.48-1.ph1", "glibc-2.22-14.ph1", "glibc-devel-2.22-14.ph1", "glibc-lang-2.22-14.ph1", "libgcrypt-1.7.6-3.ph1", "libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.7.6-3.ph1", "libgcrypt-devel-1.7.6-3.ph1", "libtar-1.2.20-3.ph1", "libtar-devel-1.2.20-3.ph1", "openjdk-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "openjdk-doc-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "openjdk-sample-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "openjdk-src-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "openjre-1.8.0.151-1.ph1", "strongswan-5.5.1-2.ph1", "strongswan-debuginfo-5.5.1-2.ph1", "unzip-6.0-8.ph1" ]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bash / glibc / libgcrypt / libtar / openjdk / openjre / strongswan / unzip"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0040_LIBGCRYPT.NASL description An update of the libgcrypt package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121743 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121743 title Photon OS 1.0: Libgcrypt PHSA-2017-0040 NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3347-1.NASL description Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys. (CVE-2017-7526) It was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover EdDSA private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9526). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 101231 published 2017-07-05 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101231 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 / 17.04 : libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities (USN-3347-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-743.NASL description This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-9526: Store the session key in secure memory to ensure that constant time point operations are used in the MPI library. (bsc#1042326) - Don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-06-30 plugin id 101136 published 2017-06-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101136 title openSUSE Security Update : libgcrypt (openSUSE-2017-743) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3880.NASL description It was discovered that a side channel attack in the EdDSA session key handling in Libgcrypt may result in information disclosure. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100774 published 2017-06-14 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/100774 title Debian DSA-3880-1 : libgcrypt20 - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-1608-1.NASL description This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-9526: Store the session key in secure memory to ensure that constant time point operations are used in the MPI library. (bsc#1042326) - Don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100910 published 2017-06-20 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/100910 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libgcrypt (SUSE-SU-2017:1608-1)
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042326
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99046
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3880
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5a22de904a0a366ae79f03ff1e13a1232a89e26b
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9494b3f258e01b6af8bd3941ce436bcc00afc56