Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-8171 - Improper Authentication vulnerability in Microsoft products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated, aka "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.2.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 5 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Authentication Abuse An attacker obtains unauthorized access to an application, service or device either through knowledge of the inherent weaknesses of an authentication mechanism, or by exploiting a flaw in the authentication scheme's implementation. In such an attack an authentication mechanism is functioning but a carefully controlled sequence of events causes the mechanism to grant access to the attacker. This attack may exploit assumptions made by the target's authentication procedures, such as assumptions regarding trust relationships or assumptions regarding the generation of secret values. This attack differs from Authentication Bypass attacks in that Authentication Abuse allows the attacker to be certified as a valid user through illegitimate means, while Authentication Bypass allows the user to access protected material without ever being certified as an authenticated user. This attack does not rely on prior sessions established by successfully authenticating users, as relied upon for the "Exploitation of Session Variables, Resource IDs and other Trusted Credentials" attack patterns.
- 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.
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Register Man in the Middle This attack utilizes a REST(REpresentational State Transfer)-style applications' trust in the system resources and environment to place man in the middle once SSL is terminated. Rest applications premise is that they leverage existing infrastructure to deliver web services functionality. An example of this is a Rest application that uses HTTP Get methods and receives a HTTP response with an XML document. These Rest style web services are deployed on existing infrastructure such as Apache and IIS web servers with no SOAP stack required. Unfortunately from a security standpoint, there frequently is no interoperable identity security mechanism deployed, so Rest developers often fall back to SSL to deliver security. In large data centers, SSL is typically terminated at the edge of the network - at the firewall, load balancer, or router. Once the SSL is terminated the HTTP request is in the clear (unless developers have hashed or encrypted the values, but this is rare). The attacker can utilize a sniffer such as Wireshark to snapshot the credentials, such as username and password that are passed in the clear once SSL is terminated. Once the attacker gathers these credentials, they can submit requests to the web service provider just as authorized user do. There is not typically an authentication on the client side, beyond what is passed in the request itself so once this is compromised, then this is generally sufficient to compromise the service's authentication scheme.
- Man in the Middle Attack This type of attack targets the communication between two components (typically client and server). The attacker places himself in the communication channel between the two components. Whenever one component attempts to communicate with the other (data flow, authentication challenges, etc.), the data first goes to the attacker, who has the opportunity to observe or alter it, and it is then passed on to the other component as if it was never intercepted. This interposition is transparent leaving the two compromised components unaware of the potential corruption or leakage of their communications. The potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks yields an implicit lack of trust in communication or identify between two components.
Nessus
NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS18_JUL_VISUAL_STUDIO.NASL description The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Visual Studio software when the software does not check the source markup of a file for an unbuilt project. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. (CVE-2018-8172) - A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could try an infinite number of authentication attempts. The update addresses the vulnerability by validating the number of incorrect login attempts. (CVE-2018-8171) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET software which can lead to exploitation of a user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111042 published 2018-07-12 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/111042 title Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (July 2018) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the Microsoft Security Updates API. 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It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Visual Studio software when the software does not check the source markup of a file for an unbuilt project. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. (CVE-2018-8172) - A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could try an infinite number of authentication attempts. The update addresses the vulnerability by validating the number of incorrect login attempts. (CVE-2018-8171) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET software which can lead to exploitation of a user's machine by allowing attackers to run arbitrary code. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET checks the source markup of a file. (CVE-2018-8260) - A tampering vulnerability exists in Microsoft Macro Assembler when code is improperly validated. The security update addresses the vulnerability asserting that Microsoft Macro Assembler properly validates code logic. (CVE-2018-8232)"); # https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4336946/security-update-for-vulnerabilities-in-visual-studio script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?81426623"); # https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4336986/security-update-for-vulnerabilities-in-visual-studio script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8520cbfa"); # https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4336999/security-update-for-vulnerabilities-in-visual-studio script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8200e172"); # https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4336919/security-update-for-vulnerabilities-in-visual-studio script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?eee030b0"); # https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4339279/description-of-the-security-update-for-the-asp-net-security-featu script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?59900f80"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue: -KB4336946 -KB4336986 -KB4336999 -KB4336919 -KB4339279"); 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NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS18_JUL_ASPDOTNET_CORE_CVE-2018-8171.NASL description The Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET installations on the remote host are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could try an infinite number of authentication attempts. The update addresses the vulnerability by validating the number of incorrect login attempts. (CVE-2018-8171) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111070 published 2018-07-13 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/111070 title Security Updates for Microsoft .NET core and ASP.NET (Bypass) (July 2018) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the Microsoft Security Updates API. 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