Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-0001 - Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
juniper
fedoraproject
CWE-674
nessus
NVD
Published: 2019-01-15
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Receipt of a malformed packet on MX Series devices with dynamic vlan configuration can trigger an uncontrolled recursion loop in the Broadband Edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd), and lead to high CPU usage and a crash of the bbe-smgd service. Repeated receipt of the same packet can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S1; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S7; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S10, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S1; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Juniper
73
OS
Fedoraproject
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • XML Nested Payloads
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. By nesting XML data and causing this data to be continuously self-referential, an attacker can cause the XML parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In most cases this type of an attack will result in a denial of service due to an application becoming unstable, freezing, or crash. However it may be possible to cause a crash resulting in arbitrary code execution, leading to a jump from the data plane to the control plane [R.230.1].
  • XML Oversized Payloads
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. By supplying oversized payloads in input vectors that will be processed by the XML parser, an attacker can cause the XML parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization, and potentially cause execution of arbitrary code. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In many cases this type of an attack will result in a denial of service due to an application becoming unstable, freezing, or crash. However it is possible to cause a crash resulting in arbitrary code execution, leading to a jump from the data plane to the control plane [R.231.1].
  • Violating Implicit Assumptions Regarding XML Content (aka XML Denial of Service (XDoS))
    XML Denial of Service (XDoS) can be applied to any technology that utilizes XML data. This is, of course, most distributed systems technology including Java, .Net, databases, and so on. XDoS is most closely associated with web services, SOAP, and Rest, because remote service requesters can post malicious XML payloads to the service provider designed to exhaust the service provider's memory, CPU, and/or disk space. The main weakness in XDoS is that the service provider generally must inspect, parse, and validate the XML messages to determine routing, workflow, security considerations, and so on. It is exactly these inspection, parsing, and validation routines that XDoS targets. There are three primary attack vectors that XDoS can navigate Target CPU through recursion: attacker creates a recursive payload and sends to service provider Target memory through jumbo payloads: service provider uses DOM to parse XML. DOM creates in memory representation of XML document, but when document is very large (for example, north of 1 Gb) service provider host may exhaust memory trying to build memory objects. XML Ping of death: attack service provider with numerous small files that clog the system. All of the above attacks exploit the loosely coupled nature of web services, where the service provider has little to no control over the service requester and any messages the service requester sends.
  • XML Parser Attack
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. These adverse effects may include the parser crashing, consuming too much of a resource, executing too slowly, executing code supplied by an attacker, allowing usage of unintended system functionality, etc. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In some cases it may be possible to jump from the data plane to the control plane via bad data being passed to an XML parser. [R.99.1]

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-5F14B810F8.NASL
    descriptiontnef release 1.4.18. ==================== Security release to resolve [CVE-2019-18849](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-20 19-18849) in which it may be possible to attack via a crafted email message extracted via tnef. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id131711
    published2019-12-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131711
    titleFedora 30 : tnef (2019-5f14b810f8)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-5f14b810f8.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(131711);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-0001", "CVE-2019-18849");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-5f14b810f8");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 30 : tnef (2019-5f14b810f8)");
  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:
"tnef release 1.4.18. ==================== Security release to resolve
[CVE-2019-18849](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-20
19-18849) in which it may be possible to attack via a crafted email
message extracted via tnef.

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-2019-5f14b810f8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tnef package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-0001");
  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:tnef");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/05");
  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 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:"^30([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 30", "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:"FC30", reference:"tnef-1.4.18-1.fc30")) 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, "tnef");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-815807C020.NASL
    descriptiontnef release 1.4.18. ==================== Security release to resolve [CVE-2019-18849](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-20 19-18849) in which it may be possible to attack via a crafted email message extracted via tnef. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id131712
    published2019-12-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131712
    titleFedora 31 : tnef (2019-815807c020)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-815807c020.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(131712);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-0001", "CVE-2019-18849");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-815807c020");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 31 : tnef (2019-815807c020)");
  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:
"tnef release 1.4.18. ==================== Security release to resolve
[CVE-2019-18849](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-20
19-18849) in which it may be possible to attack via a crafted email
message extracted via tnef.

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-2019-815807c020"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tnef package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-0001");
  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:tnef");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/05");
  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 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:"^31([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 31", "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:"FC31", reference:"tnef-1.4.18-1.fc31")) 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, "tnef");
}
  • NASL familyJunos Local Security Checks
    NASL idJUNIPER_JSA10900.NASL
    descriptionReceipt of a malformed packet on MX Series devices with dynamic vlan configuration can trigger an uncontrolled recursion loop in the Broadband Edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd), and lead to high CPU usage and a crash of the bbe-smgd service. Repeated receipt of the same packet can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id121642
    published2019-02-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121642
    titleJuniper Junos MX Malformed Packet - DOS (JSA10900)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(121642);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/03/27 13:17:50");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-0001");
  script_bugtraq_id(106541);
  script_xref(name:"JSA", value:"JSA10900");

  script_name(english:"Juniper Junos MX Malformed Packet - DOS (JSA10900)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the Junos version and build date.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
  "Receipt of a malformed packet on MX Series devices with dynamic 
  vlan configuration can trigger an uncontrolled recursion loop in 
  the Broadband Edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd), 
  and lead to high CPU usage and a crash of the bbe-smgd service. 
  Repeated receipt of the same packet can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10900");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Apply the relevant Junos software release referenced in
Juniper advisory JSA10900.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A: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_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-0001");


  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/01/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:juniper:junos");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Junos Local Security Checks");

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

  script_dependencies("junos_version.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version", "Host/Juniper/model");

  exit(0);
}

include('audit.inc');
include('junos.inc');
include("junos_kb_cmd_func.inc");
include('misc_func.inc');

model = get_kb_item_or_exit('Host/Juniper/model');
ver = get_kb_item_or_exit('Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version');
check_model(model:model, flags:MX_SERIES, exit_on_fail:TRUE);

fixes = make_array();
fixes['16.1'] = '16.1R7-S1';
fixes['16.2'] = '16.2R2-S7';
fixes['17.1'] = '17.1R2-S10';
fixes['17.2'] = '17.2R3';
fixes['17.3'] = '17.3R3-S1';
fixes['17.4'] = '17.4R2';
fixes['18.1'] = '18.1R3';
fixes['18.2'] = '18.2R2';

fix = check_junos(ver:ver, fixes:fixes, exit_on_fail:TRUE);

# If  dynamic vlan isn't enabled in some form, audit out.
override = TRUE;
buf = junos_command_kb_item(cmd:"show configuration | display set");
if (buf)
{
  override = FALSE;
  pattern = "^set dynamic-profile";
  if (!junos_check_config(buf:buf, pattern:pattern))
    audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'vulnerable as it does not appear to have dynamic vlan enabled.');
}

junos_report(ver:ver, fix:fix, override:override, severity:SECURITY_HOLE);

References