Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1478 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Platform

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
ibm
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

IBM BigFix Platform 9.2.0 through 9.2.14 and 9.5 through 9.5.9 could allow a remote attacker to hijack the clicking action of the victim. By persuading a victim to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the victim's click actions and possibly launch further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 140760.

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 familyWeb Servers
NASL idIBM_TEM_9_5_10.NASL
descriptionAccording to its self-reported version, the IBM BigFix Platform application running on the remote host is 9.2.x prior to 9.2.15, or 9.5.x prior to 9.5.10. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - IBM BigFix Platform is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and cause the server to return a split response, once the URL is clicked. This would allow the attacker to perform further attacks, such as Web cache poisoning or cross-site scripting, and possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-1474) - IBM BigFix Platform does not renew a session variable after a successful authentication which could lead to session fixation/hijacking vulnerability. This could force a user to utilize a cookie that may be known to an attacker. (CVE-2018-1485) - OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending specially crafted ASN.1 data with a recursive definition, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume excessive stack memory. (CVE-2018-0739) In addition, IBM BigFix Platform is also affected by several additional vulnerabilities including multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities, a clickjacking vulnerability, multiple sensitive cookie weakened security vulnerabilities, and a session hijacking vulnerability. IBM BigFix Platform was formerly known as Tivoli Endpoint Manager, IBM Endpoint Manager, and IBM BigFix Endpoint Manager. Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id119843
published2018-12-21
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119843
titleIBM BigFix Platform 9.2.x < 9.2.15 / 9.5.x < 9.5.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(119843);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/31 15:18:51");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-0739",
    "CVE-2018-1474",
    "CVE-2018-1476",
    "CVE-2018-1478",
    "CVE-2018-1480",
    "CVE-2018-1481",
    "CVE-2018-1484",
    "CVE-2018-1485"
  );

  script_name(english:"IBM BigFix Platform 9.2.x < 9.2.15 / 9.5.x < 9.5.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the version of the IBM BigFix Server.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"An infrastructure management application running on the remote host
is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version, the IBM BigFix Platform
application running on the remote host is 9.2.x prior to 9.2.15, or
9.5.x prior to 9.5.10. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities :

  - IBM BigFix Platform is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting
    attacks, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A
    remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject
    arbitrary HTTP headers and cause the server to return a split
    response, once the URL is clicked. This would allow the attacker
    to perform further attacks, such as Web cache poisoning or
    cross-site scripting, and possibly obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2018-1474)

  - IBM BigFix Platform does not renew a session variable after a
    successful authentication which could lead to session
    fixation/hijacking vulnerability. This could force a user to
    utilize a cookie that may be known to an attacker.
    (CVE-2018-1485)

  - OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending
    specially crafted ASN.1 data with a recursive definition, a
    remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume
    excessive stack memory. (CVE-2018-0739)

In addition, IBM BigFix Platform is also affected by several
additional vulnerabilities including multiple information disclosure
vulnerabilities, a clickjacking vulnerability, multiple sensitive
cookie weakened security vulnerabilities, and a session hijacking
vulnerability.

IBM BigFix Platform was formerly known as Tivoli Endpoint Manager,
IBM Endpoint Manager, and IBM BigFix Endpoint Manager.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead
relied only on the application's self-reported version number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10733605");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to IBM BigFix Platform version 9.2.15 / 9.5.10 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-1481");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/12/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/12/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/12/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:ibm:tivoli_endpoint_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:ibm:bigfix_platform");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Web Servers");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ibm_tem_detect.nasl");
  script_require_keys("www/BigFixHTTPServer");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 52311);

  exit(0);
}

include("vcf.inc");
include("http.inc");

app = "IBM BigFix Server";
port = get_http_port(default:52311, embedded:FALSE);

kb_version = "www/BigFixHTTPServer/"+port+"/version";
version = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_version);

if (version == UNKNOWN_VER)
  audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_WEB_SERVER_VER, app, port);

app_info = vcf::get_app_info(
  app:app,
  port:port,
  kb_ver:kb_version,
  service:TRUE
);

vcf::check_granularity(app_info:app_info, sig_segments:3);

constraints = [
  { "min_version" : "9.2", "fixed_version" : "9.2.15" },
  { "min_version" : "9.5", "fixed_version" : "9.5.10" }
];

vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING, flags:{xss:TRUE});