ipmitool up to 1.8.18 buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in ipmitool up to 1.8.18. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to buffer overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-5208. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in ipmitool up to 1.8.18. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.

The weakness was presented 02/05/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-5208 since 01/02/2020. The attack can be initiated remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 236608 (Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0046: ipmitool (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0046)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.8.19 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236608). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Name

• ipmitool

Version

• 1.8.0
• 1.8.1
• 1.8.2
• 1.8.3
• 1.8.4
• 1.8.5
• 1.8.6
• 1.8.7
• 1.8.8
• 1.8.9
• 1.8.10
• 1.8.11
• 1.8.12
• 1.8.13
• 1.8.14
• 1.8.15
• 1.8.16
• 1.8.17
• 1.8.18

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/

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