ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:1909

Info

ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1909
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: No
Published: Nov 01 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 01 2000 12:00AM
Credit: First published in a Fate Labs advisory on November 1, 2000.
Vulnerable: Recourse Technologies ManTrap 1.6.1
Not Vulnerable: Recourse Technologies ManTrap 2.0

Discussion

ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

ManTrap is a "honeypot" intrusion detection system designed to lure attackers into it for analysis. The honeypot is implemented as a chroot'ed Solaris environment, designed to look and feel real to an attacker who gains access to it.

Chroot (change root) is a unix mechanism that allows an administrator to force a process/process group to run under a subset of the file system, denying access to any other parts of the file system. It is possible for an attacker to guess that they are on a chrooted() ManTrap system by looking at the inode of the root directory (ls -id /). If it is high (usually within the 100000-200000 range), then the root directory is a chrooted() subset of a larger filesystem.

This vulnerability, combined with hidden process disclosure (bugtraq ID 1908) should fairly accurately verify to an attaacker (without root privs) that the host is a ManTrap honeypot, defeating its purpose.

Exploit / POC

ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

Exploit available:

Solution / Fix

ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
This signature has been fixed in ManTrap v2.0 with the most recent patch set. Please contact Recourse Technologies for information on how to obtain v2.0 and/or the current patch set. Contact information can be found at www.recourse.com.

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ManTrap Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

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