Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-13640 - OS Command Injection vulnerability in Qbittorrent
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In qBittorrent before 4.1.7, the function Application::runExternalProgram() located in app/application.cpp allows command injection via shell metacharacters in the torrent name parameter or current tracker parameter, as demonstrated by remote command execution via a crafted name within an RSS feed.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- 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.
- Command Delimiters An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that allows an attacker's commands to be concatenated onto a legitimate command with the intent of targeting other resources such as the file system or database. The system that uses a filter or a blacklist input validation, as opposed to whitelist validation is vulnerable to an attacker who predicts delimiters (or combinations of delimiters) not present in the filter or blacklist. As with other injection attacks, the attacker uses the command delimiter payload as an entry point to tunnel through the application and activate additional attacks through SQL queries, shell commands, network scanning, and so on.
- Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers An attacker supplies the target software with input data that contains sequences of special characters designed to bypass input validation logic. This exploit relies on the target making multiples passes over the input data and processing a "layer" of special characters with each pass. In this manner, the attacker can disguise input that would otherwise be rejected as invalid by concealing it with layers of special/escape characters that are stripped off by subsequent processing steps. The goal is to first discover cases where the input validation layer executes before one or more parsing layers. That is, user input may go through the following logic in an application: In such cases, the attacker will need to provide input that will pass through the input validator, but after passing through parser2, will be converted into something that the input validator was supposed to stop.
- Argument Injection An attacker changes the behavior or state of a targeted application through injecting data or command syntax through the targets use of non-validated and non-filtered arguments of exposed services or methods.
- OS Command Injection In this type of an attack, an adversary injects operating system commands into existing application functions. An application that uses untrusted input to build command strings is vulnerable. An adversary can leverage OS command injection in an application to elevate privileges, execute arbitrary commands and compromise the underlying operating system.
Nessus
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NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4650.NASL description Miguel Onoro reported that qbittorrent, a bittorrent client with a Qt5 GUI user interface, allows command injection via shell metacharacters in the torrent name parameter or current tracker parameter, which could result in remote command execution via a crafted name within an RSS feed if qbittorrent is configured to run an external program on torrent completion. last seen 2020-04-09 modified 2020-04-03 plugin id 135191 published 2020-04-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135191 title Debian DSA-4650-1 : qbittorrent - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4650. 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For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.7-3+deb9u1. For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.5-1+deb10u1." ); 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:debian:debian_linux:qbittorrent"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/07/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/04/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"qbittorrent", reference:"4.1.5-1+deb10u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"qbittorrent-dbg", reference:"4.1.5-1+deb10u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"qbittorrent-nox", reference:"4.1.5-1+deb10u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"qbittorrent", reference:"3.3.7-3+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"qbittorrent-dbg", reference:"3.3.7-3+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"qbittorrent-nox", reference:"3.3.7-3+deb9u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-2005.NASL description This update for qbittorrent fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-13640: avoid command injection (boo#1141967) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128143 published 2019-08-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128143 title openSUSE Security Update : qbittorrent (openSUSE-2019-2005) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2019-2005. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(128143); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/31"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-13640"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : qbittorrent (openSUSE-2019-2005)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2019-2005 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 qbittorrent fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-13640: avoid command injection (boo#1141967)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141967" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected qbittorrent 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:qbittorrent"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qbittorrent-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qbittorrent-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qbittorrent-nox"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qbittorrent-nox-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/07/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/26"); 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:"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:"qbittorrent-4.1.5-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"qbittorrent-debuginfo-4.1.5-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"qbittorrent-debugsource-4.1.5-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"qbittorrent-nox-4.1.5-lp151.2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"qbittorrent-nox-debuginfo-4.1.5-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, "qbittorrent / qbittorrent-debuginfo / qbittorrent-debugsource / etc"); }
References
- https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/10925
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00080.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00085.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4650
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OH3WYCKODG4OKMC4S6PWHLHAWWU6ORNC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T4XAX2VUI4WMAS5AI4OE3OEQSQCDCF5/