Softsphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 Privileges access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Softsphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Privileges. The manipulation leads to access control. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-1515. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Softsphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Privileges. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The dwall.sys driver in SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 allows local users to write data to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x00222000, 0x00222004, 0x00222008, 0x0022200c, or 0x00222010 IOCTL call.

The weakness was presented 02/19/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at osvdb.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-1515 since 02/06/2015. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

A public exploit has been developed by Parvez Anwar and been published before and not just after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit 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 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 123283 (SoftSphere DefenseWall Privilege Escalation Vulnerability).

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 Exploit-DB (36052), OSVDB (117996†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-49127†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Parvez Anwar
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: osvdb.org⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-1515 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-1515
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-74248
OSVDB: 117996
Vulnerability Center: 49127 - SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 Local Security Bypass Vulnerability, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/30/2015 12:16 PM
Updated: 11/30/2024 12:48 PM
Changes: 03/30/2015 12:16 PM (53), 06/23/2017 10:26 AM (8), 11/30/2024 12:48 PM (22)
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