Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-15877 - Missing Authorization vulnerability in Freebsd 12.1

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
local
low complexity
freebsd
CWE-862
nessus

Summary

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356606 and 12.1-RELEASE before 12.1-RELEASE-p3, driver specific ioctl command handlers in the ixl network driver failed to check whether the caller has sufficient privileges allowing unprivileged users to trigger updates to the device's non-volatile memory.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_B2B837616A0911EA92AB00163E433440.NASL
descriptionThe driver-specific ioctl(2) command handlers in ixl(4) failed to check whether the caller has sufficient privileges to perform the corresponding operation. Impact : The ixl(4) handler permits unprivileged users to trigger updates to the device
last seen2020-05-09
modified2020-03-20
plugin id134723
published2020-03-20
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134723
titleFreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Insufficient ixl(4) ioctl(2) privilege checking (b2b83761-6a09-11ea-92ab-00163e433440)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(134723);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-15877");
  script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-20:06.if_ixl_ioctl");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Insufficient ixl(4) ioctl(2) privilege checking (b2b83761-6a09-11ea-92ab-00163e433440)");
  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:
"The driver-specific ioctl(2) command handlers in ixl(4) failed to
check whether the caller has sufficient privileges to perform the
corresponding operation. Impact : The ixl(4) handler permits
unprivileged users to trigger updates to the device's non-volatile
memory (NVM)."
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b2b83761-6a09-11ea-92ab-00163e433440.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ee8bddd7"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-15877");
  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:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/03/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/20");
  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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  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);


if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=12.1<12.1_3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");