Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-6758 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Unbit Uwsgi
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The uwsgi_expand_path function in core/utils.c in Unbit uWSGI through 2.0.15 has a stack-based buffer overflow via a large directory length.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-04B3AF1EDF.NASL description - Conditionally disable router-access for tcp_wrappers deprecation (Jorge Gallegos) - Updated to 2.0.16 which includes fix for CVE-2018-6758 (Jorge Gallegos) --- - Modernize and generalize building of Python subpackages : - replace python with python2 - use appropriate macros for when refering to Python 3 - prefix Python-dependent plugins with the version of Python they are built with - Also build Python 3 subpackages for the other Python 3 version in EPEL7 --- - Build Python 3 version(s) of gevent plugin on Fedora and EPEL7 - Build Python 3 version of greenlet plugin on Fedora and EPEL7 - Build Python 2 version of greenlet plugin on EPEL7 - Always build Python 3 version of tornado plugin when building with Python 3 (drop python3_tornado build conditional) --- - Latest upstream (rhbz#1549354) - Enable uwsgi-plugin-coroae on EL7 - Use systemd tmpfiles to create /run/uwsgi with group write permissions (rhbz#1427303) - Use /var/run/uwsgi when not using systemd - Build with versioned python command - Remove %%config from systemd unit file - Disable greenlet plugin on EL7 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 2018-07-24 plugin id 111235 published 2018-07-24 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/111235 title Fedora 27 : uwsgi (2018-04b3af1edf) 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-2018-04b3af1edf. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(111235); script_version("1.9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-6758", "CVE-2018-7490"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-04b3af1edf"); script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : uwsgi (2018-04b3af1edf)"); 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: " - Conditionally disable router-access for tcp_wrappers deprecation (Jorge Gallegos) - Updated to 2.0.16 which includes fix for CVE-2018-6758 (Jorge Gallegos) --- - Modernize and generalize building of Python subpackages : - replace python with python2 - use appropriate macros for when refering to Python 3 - prefix Python-dependent plugins with the version of Python they are built with - Also build Python 3 subpackages for the other Python 3 version in EPEL7 --- - Build Python 3 version(s) of gevent plugin on Fedora and EPEL7 - Build Python 3 version of greenlet plugin on Fedora and EPEL7 - Build Python 2 version of greenlet plugin on EPEL7 - Always build Python 3 version of tornado plugin when building with Python 3 (drop python3_tornado build conditional) --- - Latest upstream (rhbz#1549354) - Enable uwsgi-plugin-coroae on EL7 - Use systemd tmpfiles to create /run/uwsgi with group write permissions (rhbz#1427303) - Use /var/run/uwsgi when not using systemd - Build with versioned python command - Remove %%config from systemd unit file - Disable greenlet plugin on EL7 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-2018-04b3af1edf" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected uwsgi package."); 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:F/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: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:"d2_elliot_name", value:"uWSGI Path Traversal File Disclosure"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_d2_elliot", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:uwsgi"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/02/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/07/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/07/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 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:"uwsgi-2.0.17.1-1.fc27")) 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, "uwsgi"); }
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_A8F25565109E11E88D4197657151F8C2.NASL description Uwsgi developers report : It was discovered that the uwsgi_expand_path function in utils.c in Unbit uWSGI, an application container server, has a stack-based buffer overflow via a large directory length that can cause a denial-of-service (application crash) or stack corruption. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106813 published 2018-02-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106813 title FreeBSD : uwsgi -- a stack-based buffer overflow (a8f25565-109e-11e8-8d41-97657151f8c2) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(106813); script_version("3.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:47"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-6758"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : uwsgi -- a stack-based buffer overflow (a8f25565-109e-11e8-8d41-97657151f8c2)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Uwsgi developers report : It was discovered that the uwsgi_expand_path function in utils.c in Unbit uWSGI, an application container server, has a stack-based buffer overflow via a large directory length that can cause a denial-of-service (application crash) or stack corruption." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lists.unbit.it/pipermail/uwsgi/2018-February/008835.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00010.html" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/a8f25565-109e-11e8-8d41-97657151f8c2.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4b09fcc6" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); 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_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:uwsgi"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/02/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/02/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/02/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"uwsgi<2.0.16")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4142.NASL description Marios Nicolaides discovered that the PHP plugin in uWSGI, a fast, self-healing application container server, does not properly handle a DOCUMENT_ROOT check during use of the --php-docroot option, allowing a remote attacker to mount a directory traversal attack and gain unauthorized read access to sensitive files located outside of the web root directory. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 108419 published 2018-03-19 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/108419 title Debian DSA-4142-1 : uwsgi - security update NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1275.NASL description It was discovered that the uwsgi_expand_path function in utils.c in Unbit uWSGI, an application container server, has a stack-based buffer overflow via a large directory length that can cause a denial of service (application crash) or stack corruption. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2018-02-12 plugin id 106723 published 2018-02-12 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/106723 title Debian DLA-1275-1 : uwsgi security update
References
- http://lists.unbit.it/pipermail/uwsgi/2018-February/008835.html
- http://lists.unbit.it/pipermail/uwsgi/2018-February/008835.html
- https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/commit/cb4636f7c0af2e97a4eef7a3cdcbd85a71247bfe
- https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/commit/cb4636f7c0af2e97a4eef7a3cdcbd85a71247bfe
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00010.html