Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-18541 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
teeworlds
debian
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download packets.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Teeworlds
2
OS
Debian
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 familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-63465E1846.NASL
    description0.6.5 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-03
    plugin id120475
    published2019-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120475
    titleFedora 28 : teeworlds (2018-63465e1846)
    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-2018-63465e1846.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(120475);
      script_version("1.5");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18541");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-63465e1846");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 28 : teeworlds (2018-63465e1846)");
      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:
    "0.6.5
    
    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-2018-63465e1846"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected teeworlds package."
      );
      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:U/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:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:teeworlds");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/20");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/31");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/03");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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:"^28([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 28", "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:"FC28", reference:"teeworlds-0.6.5-1.fc28")) 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, "teeworlds");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2019-1793.NASL
    descriptionThis update for teeworlds fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-10879: An integer overflow in CDataFileReader::Open() could have lead to a buffer overflow and possibly remote code execution, because size-related multiplications were mishandled. (boo#1131729) - CVE-2019-10878: A failed bounds check in CDataFileReader::GetData() and CDataFileReader::ReplaceData() and related functions could have lead to an arbitrary free and out-of-bounds pointer write, possibly resulting in remote code execution. - CVE-2019-10877: An integer overflow in CMap::Load() could have lead to a buffer overflow, because multiplication of width and height were mishandled. - CVE-2018-18541: Connection packets could have been forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could have sent connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download packets. (boo#1112910) - Update to version 0.7.3.1 - Colorful gametype and level icons in the browser instead of grayscale. - Add an option to use raw mouse inputs, revert to (0.6) relative mode by default. - Demo list marker indicator. - Restore ingame Player and Tee menus, add a warning that a reconnect is needed. - Emotes can now be cancelled by releasing the mouse in the middle of the circle. - Improve add friend text. - Add a confirmation for removing a filter - Add a
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id126977
    published2019-07-24
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126977
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : teeworlds (openSUSE-2019-1793)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2019-1793.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(126977);
      script_version("1.2");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/06");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18541", "CVE-2019-10877", "CVE-2019-10878", "CVE-2019-10879");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : teeworlds (openSUSE-2019-1793)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2019-1793 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This update for teeworlds fixes the following issues :
    
      - CVE-2019-10879: An integer overflow in
        CDataFileReader::Open() could have lead to a buffer
        overflow and possibly remote code execution, because
        size-related multiplications were mishandled.
        (boo#1131729)
    
      - CVE-2019-10878: A failed bounds check in
        CDataFileReader::GetData() and
        CDataFileReader::ReplaceData() and related functions
        could have lead to an arbitrary free and out-of-bounds
        pointer write, possibly resulting in remote code
        execution.
    
      - CVE-2019-10877: An integer overflow in CMap::Load()
        could have lead to a buffer overflow, because
        multiplication of width and height were mishandled.
    
      - CVE-2018-18541: Connection packets could have been
        forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the
        connection build up. A remote attacker could have sent
        connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy
        all server slots, or even use them for a reflection
        attack using map download packets. (boo#1112910)
    
      - Update to version 0.7.3.1
    
      - Colorful gametype and level icons in the browser instead
        of grayscale.
    
      - Add an option to use raw mouse inputs, revert to (0.6)
        relative mode by default.
    
      - Demo list marker indicator.
    
      - Restore ingame Player and Tee menus, add a warning that
        a reconnect is needed.
    
      - Emotes can now be cancelled by releasing the mouse in
        the middle of the circle.
    
      - Improve add friend text.
    
      - Add a confirmation for removing a filter
    
      - Add a 'click a player to follow' hint
    
      - Also hint players which key they should press to set
        themselves ready.
    
      - fixed using correct array measurements when placing egg
        doodads
    
      - fixed demo recorder downloaded maps using the sha256
        hash
    
      - show correct game release version in the start menu and
        console
    
      - Fix platform-specific client libraries for Linux
    
      - advanced scoreboard with game statistics
    
      - joystick support (experimental!)
    
      - copy paste (one-way)
    
      - bot cosmetics (a visual difference between players and
        NPCs)
    
      - chat commands (type / in chat)
    
      - players can change skin without leaving the server
        (again)
    
      - live automapper and complete rules for 0.7 tilesets
    
      - audio toggling HUD
    
      - an Easter surprise...
    
      - new gametypes: 'last man standing' (LMS) and 'last team
        standing' (LTS). survive by your own or as a team with
        limited weaponry
    
      - 64 players support. official gametypes are still
        restricted to 16 players maximum but allow more
        spectators
    
      - new skin system. build your own skins based on a variety
        of provided parts
    
      - enhanced security. all communications require a
        handshake and use a token to counter spoofing and
        reflection attacks
    
      - new maps: ctf8, dm3, lms1. Click to discover them!
    
      - animated background menu map: jungle, heavens (day/night
        themes, customisable in the map editor)
    
      - new design for the menus: added start menus, reworked
        server browser, settings
    
      - customisable gametype icons (browser). make your own!
    
      - chat overhaul, whispers (private messages)
    
      - composed binds (ctrl+, shift+, alt+)
    
      - scoreboard remodelled, now shows kills/deaths
    
      - demo markers
    
      - master server list cache (in case the masters are
        unreachable)
    
      - input separated from rendering (optimisation)
    
      - upgrade to SDL2. support for multiple monitors,
        non-english keyboards, and more
    
      - broadcasts overhaul, optional colours support
    
      - ready system, for competitive settings
    
      - server difficulty setting (casual, competitive, normal),
        shown in the browser
    
      - spectator mode improvements: follow flags, click on
        players
    
      - bot flags for modified servers: indicate NPCs, can be
        filtered out in the server browser
    
      - sharper graphics all around (no more tileset_borderfix
        and dilate)
    
      - refreshed the HUD, ninja cooldown, new mouse cursor
    
      - mapres update (higher resolution, fixes...)"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112910"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131729"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected teeworlds packages."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      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: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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:teeworlds");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:teeworlds-debuginfo");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:teeworlds-debugsource");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/20");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/07/23");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/07/24");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      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, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE15\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "15.1", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"teeworlds-0.7.3.1-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"teeworlds-debuginfo-0.7.3.1-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"teeworlds-debugsource-0.7.3.1-lp151.2.3.1") ) 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, "teeworlds / teeworlds-debuginfo / teeworlds-debugsource");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-B24201FC50.NASL
    description0.6.5 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-11-01
    plugin id118580
    published2018-11-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118580
    titleFedora 27 : teeworlds (2018-b24201fc50)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-4329.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that incorrect connection setup in the server for Teeworlds, an online multi-player platform 2D shooter, could result in denial of service via forged connection packets (rendering all game server slots occupied).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id118495
    published2018-10-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118495
    titleDebian DSA-4329-1 : teeworlds - security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-5702DC9BDF.NASL
    description0.6.5 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-03
    plugin id120438
    published2019-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120438
    titleFedora 29 : teeworlds (2018-5702dc9bdf)