HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23 Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-1248. No exploit is available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23 (Operating System). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in usermod in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23, when run with certain options that involve a new home directory, might cause usermod to change the ownership of all directories and files under the new directory, which might result in less secure permissions than intended.

The bug was discovered 03/15/2006. The weakness was published 03/17/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at h20000.www2.hp.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-1248 since 03/17/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22328 (HP-UX PHCO_34763 : HP-UX usermod(1M) Local Unauthorized Access. (HPSBUX02102 SSRT051078 rev.4)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family HP-UX Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. 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 (25311), Tenable (22328), SecurityFocus (BID 17143†), OSVDB (23997†) and Secunia (SA19305†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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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: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 22328
Nessus Name: HP-UX PHCO_34763 : HP-UX usermod(1M) Local Unauthorized Access. (HPSBUX02102 SSRT051078 rev.4)
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03/17/2006 +2 days 🔍
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09/18/2006 +6 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +3097 days 🔍
06/25/2019 +1566 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: h20000.www2.hp.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1248 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1248
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29220

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X-Force: 25311
SecurityFocus: 17143 - HP-UX Usermod Local Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
Secunia: 19305 - HP-UX usermod Recursive Ownership Change Security Issue, Less Critical
OSVDB: 23997 - CVE-2006-1248 - HP-UX - Unspecified Issue
SecurityTracker: 1015782
Vulnerability Center: 12693 - HP-UX Directories Ownership Change Vulnerability via Usermod, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-0997

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/25/2019 11:40
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (76), 06/25/2019 11:40 (5)
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Cache ID: 216:754:103

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