cpio up to 2.6 Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in cpio up to 2.6. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes Local Privilege Escalation. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-1111. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in cpio up to 2.6. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete.

The bug was discovered 04/20/2005. The weakness was shared 05/02/2005 by Imran Ghory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-1111 since 04/16/2005. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18678 (Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cpio (MDKSA-2005:116-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Mandriva Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117795 (CentOS Security Update for cpio (CESA-2005:806)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22634), Tenable (18678), SecurityFocus (BID 13159†), OSVDB (15725†) and Secunia (SA15751†). The entry VDB-13744 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.9
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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 18678
Nessus Name: Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cpio (MDKSA-2005:116-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 55541
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 846-1 (cpio)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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04/13/2005 🔍
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04/16/2005 +3 days 🔍
04/20/2005 +4 days 🔍
04/20/2005 +0 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +11 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +0 days 🔍
06/20/2005 +49 days 🔍
06/27/2005 +7 days 🔍
07/12/2005 +15 days 🔍
07/19/2005 +7 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +3522 days 🔍
06/02/2019 +1544 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Imran Ghory
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1111 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-1111
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24859

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X-Force: 22634
SecurityFocus: 13159 - CPIO CHMod File Permission Modification Race Condition Weakness
Secunia: 15751 - Gentoo update for cpio, Less Critical
OSVDB: 15725 - cpio Race Condition Arbitrary File Permission Modification
Vulnerability Center: 8435 - GNU cpio 1.0 - 2.6 Allows Writing to Files by Create a Malicious cpio File, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 06/02/2019 18:23
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (79), 06/02/2019 18:23 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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