Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-8793 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
OpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files (e.g., on some Linux distributions) because of a combination of an untrusted search path in makemap.c and race conditions in the offline functionality in smtpd.c.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links This attack leverages the use of symbolic links (Symlinks) in order to write to sensitive files. An attacker can create a Symlink link to a target file not otherwise accessible to her. When the privileged program tries to create a temporary file with the same name as the Symlink link, it will actually write to the target file pointed to by the attackers' Symlink link. If the attacker can insert malicious content in the temporary file she will be writing to the sensitive file by using the Symlink. The race occurs because the system checks if the temporary file exists, then creates the file. The attacker would typically create the Symlink during the interval between the check and the creation of the temporary file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Exploit-Db
id | EDB-ID:48139 |
last seen | 2020-02-26 |
modified | 2020-02-26 |
published | 2020-02-26 |
reporter | Exploit-DB |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/48139 |
title | OpenSMTPD 6.6.3 - Arbitrary File Read |
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4294-1.NASL description It was discovered that OpenSMTPD mishandled certain input. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands as any non-root user. (CVE-2020-8794) It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks under certain conditions. An unprivileged local attacker could read the first line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793). 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 seen 2020-03-18 modified 2020-03-06 plugin id 134299 published 2020-03-06 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134299 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.10 : OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities (USN-4294-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4294-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. 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An unprivileged local attacker could read the first line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(133973); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/06"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8793", "CVE-2020-8794"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : OpenSMTPd -- LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD's default install (f0683976-5779-11ea-8a77-1c872ccb1e42)"); 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: "OpenSMTPD developers reports : An out of bounds read in smtpd allows an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the envelope file which are then executed as root. 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References
- https://www.openbsd.org/security.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/24/4
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/28
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4294-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OPH4QU4DNVHA7ACFXMYFCEP5PSXXPN4E/