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A vulnerability was found in diffoscope up to 76. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a 7pk security vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-254. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.
The bug was discovered 02/09/2017. The weakness was presented 04/13/2018 as EDB-ID 41240 as confirmed exploit (Exploit-DB). The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-0359 since 11/29/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1211 for this issue.
A public exploit has been developed by Kristian Erik Hermansen and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 341 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 105740 (openSUSE Security Update : diffoscope (openSUSE-2018-19)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 170672 (OpenSUSE Security Update for diffoscope (openSUSE-SU-2018:0060-1)).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (105740) and Exploit-DB (41240). See 97174 for similar entry.
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Class: 7pk securityCWE: CWE-254
ATT&CK: T1211
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Kristian Erik Hermansen
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Nessus ID: 105740
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : diffoscope (openSUSE-2018-19)
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OpenVAS ID: 867773
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for diffoscope FEDORA-2017-33cb46c6b0
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Sources
Advisory: EDB-ID 41240Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-0359 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 04/16/2018 09:22Updated: 01/24/2020 19:57
Changes: 04/16/2018 09:22 (81), 01/24/2020 19:57 (1)
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