Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-10900 - OS Command Injection vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Network Manager VPNC plugin (aka networkmanager-vpnc) before version 1.2.6 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. A new line character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to VPNC, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Argument Injection An attacker changes the behavior or state of a targeted application through injecting data or command syntax through the targets use of non-validated and non-filtered arguments of exposed services or methods.
- OS Command Injection In this type of an attack, an adversary injects operating system commands into existing application functions. An application that uses untrusted input to build command strings is vulnerable. An adversary can leverage OS command injection in an application to elevate privileges, execute arbitrary commands and compromise the underlying operating system.
Exploit-Db
description | Network Manager VPNC 1.2.6 - 'Username' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit). CVE-2018-10900. Local exploit for Linux platform. Tags: Metasploit Framework... |
file | exploits/linux/local/45313.rb |
id | EDB-ID:45313 |
last seen | 2018-10-07 |
modified | 2018-08-31 |
platform | linux |
port | |
published | 2018-08-31 |
reporter | Exploit-DB |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/45313/ |
title | Network Manager VPNC 1.2.6 - 'Username' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) |
type | local |
Metasploit
description | This module exploits an injection vulnerability in the Network Manager VPNC plugin to gain root privileges. This module uses a new line injection vulnerability in the configured username for a VPN network connection to inject a `Password helper` configuration directive into the connection configuration. The specified helper is executed by Network Manager as root when the connection is started. Network Manager VPNC versions prior to 1.2.6 are vulnerable. This module has been tested successfully with VPNC versions: 1.2.4-4 on Debian 9.0.0 (x64); and 1.1.93-1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 (x64). |
id | MSF:EXPLOIT/LINUX/LOCAL/NETWORK_MANAGER_VPNC_USERNAME_PRIV_ESC |
last seen | 2020-06-13 |
modified | 2019-01-10 |
published | 2018-08-19 |
references |
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reporter | Rapid7 |
source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/linux/local/network_manager_vpnc_username_priv_esc.rb |
title | Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation |
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-AC02463F82.NASL description Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900). The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-07-27 plugin id 111361 published 2018-07-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111361 title Fedora 27 : 1:NetworkManager-vpnc (2018-ac02463f82) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111361); script_version("1.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10900"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-ac02463f82"); script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : 1:NetworkManager-vpnc (2018-ac02463f82)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900). The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. 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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected 1:NetworkManager-vpnc package." ); 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:F/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/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:"metasploit_name", value:'Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation'); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:NetworkManager-vpnc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/07/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/07/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } 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/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^27([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 27", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC27", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6-1.fc27", epoch:"1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, 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, "1:NetworkManager-vpnc"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2297-1.NASL description This update for NetworkManager-vpnc fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-10900: Check configurations that contain newline characters and invalidate them to avoid security attacks (bsc#1101147). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 111662 published 2018-08-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111662 title SUSE SLED12 Security Update : Recommended update for NetworkManager-vpnc (SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111662); script_version("1.6"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/10 13:51:48"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10900"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 Security Update : Recommended update for NetworkManager-vpnc (SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for NetworkManager-vpnc fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-10900: Check configurations that contain newline characters and invalidate them to avoid security attacks (bsc#1101147). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10900/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20182297-1/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4cd781bd" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-1538=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-1538=1" ); 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:F/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/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:"metasploit_name", value:'Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation'); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:NetworkManager-vpnc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:NetworkManager-vpnc-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:NetworkManager-vpnc-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } 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/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED12", "SUSE " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu); if (cpu >!< "x86_64") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu); sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel"); if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0"; if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(3)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP3", os_ver + " SP" + sp); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-1.0.8-8.4.2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-debuginfo-1.0.8-8.4.2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-debugsource-1.0.8-8.4.2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1.0.8-8.4.2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-debuginfo-1.0.8-8.4.2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Recommended update for NetworkManager-vpnc"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-EB5EA0ABAF.NASL description Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900). The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120880 published 2019-01-03 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/120880 title Fedora 28 : 1:NetworkManager-vpnc (2018-eb5ea0abaf) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201808-03.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201808-03 (NetworkManager VPNC plugin: Privilege escalation) When initiating a VPNC connection, NetworkManager spawns a new vpnc process and passes the configuration via STDIN. By injecting a special character into a configuration parameter, an attacker can coerce NetworkManager to set the Password helper option to an attacker controlled executable file. Impact : A local attacker is able to escalate privileges via a specially crafted configuration file. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112077 published 2018-08-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112077 title GLSA-201808-03 : NetworkManager VPNC plugin: Privilege escalation NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1454.NASL description Denis Andzakovic discovered that network-manager-vpnc, a plugin to provide VPNC support for NetworkManager, is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A newline character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to vpnc, allowing a local user with privileges to modify a system connection to execute arbitrary commands as root. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111467 published 2018-08-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111467 title Debian DLA-1454-1 : network-manager-vpnc security update NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4253.NASL description Denis Andzakovic discovered that network-manager-vpnc, a plugin to provide VPNC support for NetworkManager, is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A newline character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to vpnc, allowing a local user with privileges to modify a system connection to execute arbitrary commands as root. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111234 published 2018-07-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111234 title Debian DSA-4253-1 : network-manager-vpnc - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-859.NASL description This update for NetworkManager-vpnc fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-10900: Check configurations that contain newline characters and invalidate them to avoid security attacks (bsc#1101147). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-08-16 plugin id 111779 published 2018-08-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111779 title openSUSE Security Update : NetworkManager-vpnc (openSUSE-2018-859)
Packetstorm
data source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/148657/nmvpnc-escalate.txt id PACKETSTORM:148657 last seen 2018-07-25 published 2018-07-23 reporter Denis Andzakovic source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148657/Network-Manager-VPNC-1.2.4-Privilege-Escalation.html title Network Manager VPNC 1.2.4 Privilege Escalation data source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/149182/network_manager_vpnc_username_priv_esc.rb.txt id PACKETSTORM:149182 last seen 2018-08-31 published 2018-08-31 reporter Brendan Coles source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149182/Network-Manager-VPNC-Username-Privilege-Escalation.html title Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation
References
- https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.news
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03