Qpopper up to 4.0.8 poppassd Trace File privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qpopper up to 4.0.8. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component poppassd. The manipulation as part of Trace File results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-3098. Access to the local network is required for this attack. Furthermore, an exploit is available. Applying restrictive firewalling is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qpopper up to 4.0.8. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component poppassd. The manipulation as part of a Trace File 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. CVE summarizes:

poppassd in Qualcomm qpopper 4.0.8 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and gain privileges via the -t (trace file) command line argument.

The bug was discovered 09/26/2005. The weakness was published 09/24/2005 by kcope (Website). The advisory is available at lists.grok.org.uk. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-3098 since 09/28/2005. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at lists.grok.org.uk. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at qpopper.sourceforge.net.It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling . The best possible mitigation is suggested to be applying a restrictive firewalling.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (1229), SecurityFocus (BID 14944†), OSVDB (19683†), Secunia (SA16935†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-9427†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
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Access: Public
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Patch: qpopper.sourceforge.net

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: lists.grok.org.uk
Researcher: kcope
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-3098 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3098
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1770
SecurityFocus: 14944 - Qpopper Local Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability
Secunia: 16935 - Qpopper poppassd Insecure Trace File Creation Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 19683 - Qpopper poppassd Trace File Creation Local Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability Center: 9427 - Qualcomm qpopper 4.0.8 Local Privileges Escalation via poppassd, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2005-1844

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

Entryinfo

Created: 09/28/2005 13:14
Updated: 10/08/2024 04:33
Changes: 09/28/2005 13:14 (80), 07/04/2019 16:10 (1), 10/08/2024 04:33 (17)
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Cache ID: 216:A33:103

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