CVE-2020-24046

Summary

CVECVE-2020-24046
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-17 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-24 13:46:00 UTC
DescriptionA sandbox escape issue was discovered in TitanHQ SpamTitan Gateway 7.07. It limits the admin user to a restricted shell, allowing execution of a small number of tools of the operating system. This restricted shell can be bypassed after changing the properties of the user admin in the operating system file /etc/passwd. This file cannot be accessed though the restricted shell, but it can be modified by abusing the Backup/Import Backup functionality of the web interface. An authenticated attacker would be able to obtain the file /var/tmp/admin.passwd after executing a Backup operation. This file can be manually modified to change the GUID of the user to 0 (root) and change the restricted shell to a normal shell /bin/sh. After the modification is done, the file can be recompressed to a .tar.bz file and imported again via the Import Backup functionality. The properties of the admin user will be overwritten and a root shell will be granted to the user upon the next successful login.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Titanhq Spamtitan 7.07 All All All
Application Titanhq Spamtitan 7.07 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SensePost | Clash of the (spam)titan MISC sensepost.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
titanhq.com MISC www.titanhq.com Vendor Advisory
Felipe Molina (felmoltor) on Twitter MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
felmoltor (Felipe Molina) · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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