Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9025 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
An issue was discovered in PHP 7.3.x before 7.3.1. An invalid multibyte string supplied as an argument to the mb_split() function in ext/mbstring/php_mbregex.c can cause PHP to execute memcpy() with a negative argument, which could read and write past buffers allocated for the data.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 15 | |
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
| NASL family | CGI abuses |
| NASL id | PHP_7_3_1.NASL |
| description | According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 7.3.x prior to 7.3.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An integer underflow condition exists in _gdContributionsAlloc function in gd_interpolation.c. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can have unspecified impact via vectors related to decrementing the u variable. (CVE-2016-10166) - A heap-based buffer overflow condition exists in gdImageColorMatch due to improper calculation of the allocated buffer size. An attacker can exploit this, via calling imagecolormatch function with crafted image data as parameters. (CVE-2019-6977) - A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the xmlrpc_decode function due to improper validation of input data. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to cause a heap out-of-bounds read or read-after-free condition, which could result in a complete system compromise. (CVE-2019-9020) - A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the PHAR reading functions in the PHAR extension, due to improper implementation of memory operations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via persuading a user to parse a specially crafted file name on the targeted system, to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2019-9021) - Multiple heap-based buffer over-read instances exist in mbstring regular expression functions due to improper implementation of memory operations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted regular expression that contains multibyte sequences, to cause a condition that could allow the attacker to completely compromise the target system. (CVE-2019-9023) - An out-of-bounds read error exists in the xmlrpc_decode function due to improper implementation of memory operations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a hostile XMLRPC server to cause PHP to read from memory outside of allocated areas. (CVE-2019-9024) - An out-of-bounds read and write error exists in the mb_split function due to improper implementation of memory operations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by causing PHP to execute the memcpy function with a negative argument, to cause buffer over-read and over-write conditions which could allow the attacker to completely compromise the system. (CVE-2019-9025) |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 121475 |
| published | 2019-01-30 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121475 |
| title | PHP 7.3.x < 7.3.1 Multiple vulnerabilities. |
| code | |