CVE-2018-1000167

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000167
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-18 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-05-22 16:01:00 UTC
DescriptionOISF suricata-update version 1.0.0a1 contains an Insecure Deserialization vulnerability in the insecure yaml.load-Function as used in the following files: config.py:136, config.py:142, sources.py:99 and sources.py:131. The "list-sources"-command is affected by this bug. that can result in Remote Code Execution(even as root if suricata-update is called by root). This attack appears to be exploitable via a specially crafted yaml-file at https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/rules/index.yaml. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.0.0b1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-502

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oisf Suricata-update 1.0.0a1 All All All
Application Oisf Suricata-update 1.0.0a1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Remote-Code-Execution in Suricata-Update | FyhTech MISC tech.feedyourhead.at Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Bug #2359: (Remote)Code-Execution while reading yaml-file - Suricata-Update - Open Information Security Foundation MISC redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997548 Python (Pip) Security Update for suricata-update (GHSA-7c4h-w765-6pwg)
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