Twiki 2003-02-01 Search search privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Twiki 2003-02-01 (Content Management System). This affects the function search of the component Search. The manipulation of the argument Search with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The search function in TWiki 20030201 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a search string.

The bug was discovered 11/12/2004. The weakness was published 11/13/2004 by Florian Weimer (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1037 since 11/16/2004. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/02/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at saintcorporation.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 43 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15827 (GLSA-200411-33 : TWiki: Arbitrary command execution), 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 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3167.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18062), Tenable (15827) and Exploit-DB (642).

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 15827
Nessus Name: GLSA-200411-33 : TWiki: Arbitrary command execution
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OpenVAS ID: 52300
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: twiki
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Saint ID: exploit_info/twiki_search
Saint Name: TWiki Search.pm shell command injection

MetaSploit ID: twiki_search.rb
MetaSploit Name: TWiki Search Function Arbitrary Command Execution
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11/12/2004 +42 days 🔍
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06/02/2019 +1544 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Florian Weimer
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2004-1037 (🔍)
X-Force: 18062
Vulnerability Center: 8180 - Twiki < 20040902 Allows Code Execution via search.pm File, High
SecurityFocus: 11674 - TWiki Search Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 13190 - TWiki "Search.pm" Shell Command Injection Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 11714 - TWiki Search Function Arbitrary Command Execution

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 15:27
Updated: 06/02/2019 00:57
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (96), 06/02/2019 00:57 (4)
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