TitanHQ SpamTitan 7.07 ISO privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in TitanHQ SpamTitan 7.07. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component ISO Handler. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2020-24045. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in TitanHQ SpamTitan 7.07 (Anti-Spam Software). This affects some unknown processing of the component ISO Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A sandbox escape issue was discovered in TitanHQ SpamTitan Gateway 7.07. It limits the admin user to a restricted shell, allowing execution of a small number of tools of the operating system. The restricted shell can be bypassed by presenting a fake vmware-tools ISO image to the guest virtual machine running SpamTitan Gateway. This ISO image should contain a valid Perl script at the vmware-freebsd-tools/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl path. The fake ISO image will be mounted and the script wmware-install.pl will be executed with super-user privileges as soon as the hidden option to install VMware Tools is selected in the main menu of the restricted shell (option number 5). The contents of the script can be whatever the attacker wants, including a backdoor or similar.

The weakness was disclosed 09/17/2020. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-24045 since 08/13/2020. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Required for exploitation is a authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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

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• Anti-Spam Software

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• TitanHQ

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• SpamTitan

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• 7.07

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