Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-5291 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
projectatomic
debian
archlinux
centos
CWE-269
nessus
NVD
Published: 2020-03-31
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Bubblewrap (bwrap) before version 0.4.1, if installed in setuid mode and the kernel supports unprivileged user namespaces, then the `bwrap --userns2` option can be used to make the setuid process keep running as root while being traceable. This can in turn be used to gain root permissions. Note that this only affects the combination of bubblewrap in setuid mode (which is typically used when unprivileged user namespaces are not supported) and the support of unprivileged user namespaces. Known to be affected are: * Debian testing/unstable, if unprivileged user namespaces enabled (not default) * Debian buster-backports, if unprivileged user namespaces enabled (not default) * Arch if using `linux-hardened`, if unprivileged user namespaces enabled (not default) * Centos 7 flatpak COPR, if unprivileged user namespaces enabled (not default) This has been fixed in the 0.4.1 release, and all affected users should update.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Projectatomic
17
OS
Debian
1
OS
Archlinux
1
OS
Centos
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Restful Privilege Elevation
    Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.

Nessus

NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-3_0-0078_BUBBLEWRAP.NASL
descriptionAn update of the bubblewrap package has been released.
last seen2020-04-30
modified2020-04-21
plugin id135780
published2020-04-21
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135780
titlePhoton OS 3.0: Bubblewrap PHSA-2020-3.0-0078
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-3.0-0078. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.


include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(135780);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/04/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-5291");

  script_name(english:"Photon OS 3.0: Bubblewrap PHSA-2020-3.0-0078");

  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 bubblewrap package has been released.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-3.0-78.md");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  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: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-2020-5291");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/03/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/04/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:bubblewrap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:3.0");
  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) 3\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 3.0");

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-3.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"bubblewrap-0.3.0-3.ph3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-3.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"bubblewrap-debuginfo-0.3.0-3.ph3")) 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, "bubblewrap");
}

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