Barracuda Spam Firewall up to 3.3.01.001 preview_email.cgi file privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Barracuda Spam Firewall up to 3.3.01.001 (Firewall Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file preview_email.cgi. The manipulation of the argument file 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:

preview_email.cgi in Barracuda Spam Firewall (BSF) 3.3.01.001 through 3.3.03.053 allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters ("|" pipe symbol) in the file parameter. NOTE: the attack can be extended to arbitrary commands by the presence of CVE-2006-4000.

The bug was discovered 08/04/2006. The weakness was released 08/11/2006 by Greg Sinclair as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4081 since 08/10/2006. 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 as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22130 (Barracuda Spam Firewall Default Credentials), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28234) and Tenable (22130).

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 22130
Nessus Name: Barracuda Spam Firewall Default Credentials
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: barracuda.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Greg Sinclair
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-4081 (🔍)
X-Force: 28234
Vulnerability Center: 14544 - Barracuda Spam Firewall Command Execution Vulnerability in preview_email.cgi, Critical
SecurityFocus: 19276 - Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21258 - Barracuda Spam Firewall Shell Command Injection and Default Account, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 27749 - Barracuda Spam Firewall preview_email.cgi command execution

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

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Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 07/16/2019 10:30
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (74), 07/16/2019 10:30 (5)
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