CA Unified Infrastructure Management up to 8.4 SP1 Session ID path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in CA Unified Infrastructure Management up to 8.4 SP1. This affects an unknown part of the component Session ID Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-9164. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in CA Unified Infrastructure Management up to 8.4 SP1. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Session ID Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 11/10/2016 by rgod as CA20161109-01: Security Notice for CA Unified Infrastructure Management as confirmed mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure) via ZDI (Zero Day Initiative). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with CA. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-9164. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 95662 (CA Unified Infrastructure Management < 8.4 SP2 Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (CA20161109-01)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc..

Applying the patch 8.4 SP2 is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (95662) and SecurityFocus (BID 94257†). The entries VDB-93558 and VDB-93559 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Nessus ID: 95662
Nessus Name: CA Unified Infrastructure Management < 8.4 SP2 Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (CA20161109-01)
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OpenVAS ID: 801858
OpenVAS Name: CA Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Patch: 8.4 SP2

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11/03/2016 🔍
11/10/2016 +7 days 🔍
11/11/2016 +1 days 🔍
03/07/2017 +116 days 🔍
10/03/2022 +2036 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ca.com

Advisory: CA20161109-01: Security Notice for CA Unified Infrastructure Management
Researcher: rgod
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-9164 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-9164
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-93557
SecurityFocus: 94257

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Entryinfo

Created: 11/11/2016 15:37
Updated: 10/03/2022 08:29
Changes: 11/11/2016 15:37 (47), 04/19/2017 10:32 (16), 10/03/2022 08:20 (4), 10/03/2022 08:25 (11), 10/03/2022 08:29 (1)
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