Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-3341 - Improper Input Validation 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
cisco
canonical
fedoraproject
debian
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

A vulnerability in the PDF archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.101 - 0.102.2 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a stack buffer overflow read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PDF file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

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.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • 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.

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-2215.NASL
    descriptionThe following CVE(s) were found in src:clamav package. CVE-2020-3327 A vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a heap buffer overflow read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted ARJ file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. CVE-2020-3341 A vulnerability in the PDF archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a stack-based buffer overflow read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PDF file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. For Debian 8
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2020-05-20
    plugin id136720
    published2020-05-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136720
    titleDebian DLA-2215-1 : clamav security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2020-D98D2CBAE1.NASL
    descriptionClamAV 0.102.3 is a bug patch release to address the following issues. - CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash. Special thanks to Daehui Chang and Fady Othman for helping identify the ARJ parsing vulnerability. - CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash. Bug found by OSS-Fuzz. - Fix
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2020-05-26
    plugin id136848
    published2020-05-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136848
    titleFedora 30 : clamav (2020-d98d2cbae1)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_91CE95D5CD154105B942AF5CCC7144C1.NASL
    descriptionMicah Snyder reports : CVE-2020-3327: Fixed a vulnerability in the ARJ archive-parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a denial-of-service condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash. Special thanks to Daehui Chang and Fady Othman for helping identify the ARJ parsing vulnerability. CVE-2020-3341: Fixed a vulnerability in the PDF-parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a denial-of-service condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read, which may cause a crash. OSS-Fuzz discovered this vulnerability.
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2020-05-18
    plugin id136688
    published2020-05-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136688
    titleFreeBSD : clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities (91ce95d5-cd15-4105-b942-af5ccc7144c1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4370-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing ARJ archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3327) It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing PDF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3341). 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 seen2020-05-31
    modified2020-05-22
    plugin id136801
    published2020-05-22
    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/136801
    titleUbuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.10 / 20.04 : clamav vulnerabilities (USN-4370-1)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2020-B0ACD7B66E.NASL
    descriptionClamAV 0.102.3 is a bug patch release to address the following issues. - CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash. Special thanks to Daehui Chang and Fady Othman for helping identify the ARJ parsing vulnerability. - CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash. Bug found by OSS-Fuzz. - Fix
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2020-05-26
    plugin id136844
    published2020-05-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136844
    titleFedora 31 : clamav (2020-b0acd7b66e)