Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-19645 - Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH

Summary

alter.c in SQLite through 3.30.1 allows attackers to trigger infinite recursion via certain types of self-referential views in conjunction with ALTER TABLE statements.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Sqlite
300
Application
Netapp
2
Application
Oracle
15
Application
Tenable
8
Application
Siemens
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 familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-2_0-0200_SQLITE.NASL
    descriptionAn update of the sqlite package has been released.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id132989
    published2020-01-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132989
    titlePhoton OS 2.0: Sqlite PHSA-2020-2.0-0200
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0200. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.
    
    
    include('compat.inc');
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(132989);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/18");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2019-19645", "CVE-2019-19880", "CVE-2019-20218");
    
      script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Sqlite PHSA-2020-2.0-0200");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "An update of the sqlite package has been released.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-200.md");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Update the affected Linux packages.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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: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-2019-20218");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/09");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/01/14");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/16");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:sqlite");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS");
    if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 2.0");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (rpm_exists(rpm:"sqlite-3.30", release:"PhotonOS-2.0") && rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sqlite-3.30.1-1.ph2")) flag++;
    if (rpm_exists(rpm:"sqlite-3.30", release:"PhotonOS-2.0") && rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", cpu:"src", reference:"sqlite-3.30.1-1.ph2.src")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sqlite-debuginfo-3.30.1-1.ph2")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sqlite-devel-3.30.1-1.ph2")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sqlite-libs-3.30.1-1.ph2")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        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, "sqlite");
    }
    
    
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-1_0-0264_SQLITE.NASL
    descriptionAn update of the sqlite package has been released.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id132984
    published2020-01-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132984
    titlePhoton OS 1.0: Sqlite PHSA-2020-1.0-0264
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-1.0-0264. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.
    
    include('compat.inc');
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(132984);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/18");
    
      script_cve_id(
        "CVE-2019-19317",
        "CVE-2019-19603",
        "CVE-2019-19645",
        "CVE-2019-19646",
        "CVE-2019-19880",
        "CVE-2019-20218"
      );
    
      script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Sqlite PHSA-2020-1.0-0264");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "An update of the sqlite package has been released.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-1.0-264.md");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Update the affected Linux 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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-20218");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/05");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/01/15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/16");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:sqlite");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS");
    if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sqlite-autoconf-3.30.1-2.ph1")) 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, "sqlite");
    }
    
    
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4394-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain corruped schemas. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-8740) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain SELECT statements. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19603) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain self-referential views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19645) Henry Liu discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain malformed window-function queries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11655) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain string operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13434) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13435) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13630) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain virtual table names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13631) It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13632). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-12
    modified2020-06-11
    plugin id137353
    published2020-06-11
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137353
    titleUbuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.10 / 20.04 : sqlite3 vulnerabilities (USN-4394-1)