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A vulnerability was found in xloadimage up to 4.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
xloadimage before 4.1-r2, and xli before 1.17, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filenames for compressed images, which are not properly quoted when calling the gunzip command.
The bug was discovered 01/01/2001. The weakness was shared 03/02/2005 by Tavis Ormandy (Website). The advisory is shared at secunia.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0638 since 03/04/2005. 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 an exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1521 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18892 (FreeBSD : xloadimage -- arbitrary command execution when handling compressed files (310d0087-0fde-4929-a41f-96f17c5adffe)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading to version 4.1-r2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22643) and Tenable (18892). The entry 24030 is related to this item.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 18892
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : xloadimage -- arbitrary command execution when handling compressed files (310d0087-0fde-4929-a41f-96f17c5adffe)
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OpenVAS ID: 53692
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 694-1 (xloadimage)
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Upgrade: xloadimage 4.1-r2
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Sources
Advisory: secunia.com⛔Researcher: Tavis Ormandy
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-0638 (🔍)
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X-Force: 22643
Vulnerability Center: 7454 - Xloadimage <4.1-r2 and Xli <1.17 Enables Code Execution via Filenames in Compressed Image, Medium
SecurityFocus: 12712 - XLoadImage Compressed Image Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 14462 - Xloadimage Compressed Images Filename Shell Command Injection, Less Critical
OSVDB: 14365 - xli Compressed Image Filename Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Command Execution
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/10/2015 15:27Updated: 05/31/2019 01:14
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (86), 05/31/2019 01:14 (1)
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