NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : sudo Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0101)

high Nessus Plugin ID 154615

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has sudo packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

- A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression. (CVE-2011-0008)

- check.c in sudo 1.7.x before 1.7.4p5, when a Runas group is configured, does not require a password for command execution that involves a gid change but no uid change, which allows local users to bypass an intended authentication requirement via the -g option to a sudo command. (CVE-2011-0010)

- Format string vulnerability in the sudo_debug function in Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.3p1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string sequences in the program name for sudo. (CVE-2012-0809)

- sudo 1.6.x and 1.7.x before 1.7.9p1, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4p5, does not properly support configurations that use a netmask syntax, which allows local users to bypass intended command restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by executing a command on a host that has an IPv4 address. (CVE-2012-2337)

- sudo 1.6.0 through 1.7.10p6 and sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.6p6 allows local users or physically proximate attackers to bypass intended time restrictions and retain privileges without re-authenticating by setting the system clock and sudo user timestamp to the epoch. (CVE-2013-1775)

- sudo 1.3.5 through 1.7.10 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.5, when the tty_tickets option is enabled, does not properly validate the controlling terminal device, which allows local users with sudo permissions to hijack the authorization of another terminal via vectors related to connecting to the standard input, output, and error file descriptors of another terminal. NOTE: this is one of three closely-related vulnerabilities that were originally assigned CVE-2013-1776, but they have been SPLIT because of different affected versions. (CVE-2013-1776)

- Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20p1 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded newlines) in the get_process_ttyname() function resulting in information disclosure and command execution.
(CVE-2017-1000368)

- Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via sudoedit -s and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character. (CVE-2021-3156)

- A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way sudo parses command line arguments. This flaw is exploitable by any local user who can execute the sudo command without authentication. Successful exploitation of this flaw could lead to privilege escalation. (CVE-2021-3156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL sudo packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

http://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2021-0101

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2011-0008

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2011-0010

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2012-0809

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2012-2337

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2013-1775

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2013-1776

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2017-1000368

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2021-3156

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154615

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2021-0101_sudo.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 10/28/2021

Updated: 1/17/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000368

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:sudo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:sudo-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:sudo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:sudo-devel, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_core:5, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/ZTE-CGSL/release, Host/ZTE-CGSL/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2009

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/27/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0008, CVE-2011-0010, CVE-2012-0809, CVE-2012-2337, CVE-2013-1775, CVE-2013-1776, CVE-2017-1000368, CVE-2021-3156

IAVA: 2013-A-0179-S, 2017-A-0165-S, 2021-A-0053