Burp up to 2.1.31 on Gentoo access control

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A vulnerability was found in Burp up to 2.1.31 on Gentoo (Security Testing Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 sets the ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL.

The bug was discovered 06/24/2018. The weakness was presented 06/04/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at bugs.gentoo.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-18284 since 06/03/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 110524 (GLSA-201806-03 : BURP: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 2.1.32 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (110524). See 118809 for similar entry.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 110524
Nessus Name: GLSA-201806-03 : BURP: Multiple vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Burp 2.1.32

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06/13/2018 +9 days 🔍
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Advisory: bugs.gentoo.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-18284 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/04/2018 15:36
Updated: 02/14/2020 07:51
Changes: 06/04/2018 15:36 (67), 02/14/2020 07:51 (3)
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