Wube Factorio up to 0.15.30 Lua Interface access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Wube Factorio up to 0.15.30. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Lua Interface. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2017-11615. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Wube Factorio up to 0.15.30. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Lua Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A sandbox escape in the Lua interface in Wube Factorio before 0.15.31 allows remote game servers or user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary C code by including and loading a C library.

The bug was discovered 07/26/2017. The weakness was released 07/26/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at security.gerhardt.link. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-11615 since 07/25/2017. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.15.31 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Wube

Name

• Factorio

Version

• 0.15.0
• 0.15.1
• 0.15.2
• 0.15.3
• 0.15.4
• 0.15.5
• 0.15.6
• 0.15.7
• 0.15.8
• 0.15.9
• 0.15.10
• 0.15.11
• 0.15.12
• 0.15.13
• 0.15.14
• 0.15.15
• 0.15.16
• 0.15.17
• 0.15.18
• 0.15.19
• 0.15.20
• 0.15.21
• 0.15.22
• 0.15.23
• 0.15.24
• 0.15.25
• 0.15.26
• 0.15.27
• 0.15.28
• 0.15.29
• 0.15.30

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