Dell EMC iDRAC7/iDRAC8 up to 2.52 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dell EMC iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 up to 2.52. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-1211. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell EMC iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 up to 2.52. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Dell EMC iDRAC7/iDRAC8, versions prior to 2.52.52.52, contain a path traversal vulnerability in its Web server's URI parser which could be used to obtain specific sensitive data without authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to read configuration settings from the iDRAC by querying specific URI strings.

The bug was discovered 03/20/2018. The weakness was released 03/23/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at en.community.dell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-1211 since 12/06/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 109208 (Dell iDRAC Products Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mar 2018)), 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. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 11949 (Dell EMC iDRAC7/iDRAC8 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading to version 2.52.52.52 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (109208). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-114945. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• Dell EMC

Name

• iDRAC7
• iDRAC8

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dellemc.com/

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