3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

BID:99

Info

3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 99
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-1999-1389
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 11 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 12:16AM
Credit: This vulnerability was reported to the BugTraq mailing list by Jason Downs <[email protected]> on Mon, 11 May 1998. Technical examples were provided by Doug Palin <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: 3Com Total Control NETServer Card 3.7.24
Not Vulnerable: 3Com Total Control NETServer Card 3.6.22

Discussion

3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Total Control Chassis' are fairly common terminal servers; when someone
dials into an ISP that's offering X2, they're most likely dialing into one.
Any such system that answers with a 'host:' or similar prompt and is running
the specified version of the OS is vulnerable.

When a port is set to "set host prompt" the access filters are ignored
even though the specific port's ifilter is set. Access filters look like
this:
&gt; sho filter allowed_hosts
1 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.161/32 tcp dst eq 539
2 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.165/32 tcp dst eq 23
3 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.106/32 tcp dst eq 23
4 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.168/32 tcp dst eq 540
5 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.168/32 tcp dst eq 23

6 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.109/32 tcp dst eq 3030
7 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.109/32 tcp dst eq 3031
8 permit XXX.XXX.XXX.12/24 XXX.XXX.XXX.109/32 tcp dst eq 513
9 deny 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ip

Filter is set with "set all ifilter allowed_hosts"

Dialup users are able to type a host name twice at the "host:" prompt which
will in turn open a telnet session to the host the user typed twice.
The results for a user doing this will show up as follows.

&gt; sho ses

S19 woodnet.wce.wwu woodnet.wce.wwu. Login In ESTABLISHED 4:30

Use of this will show up in the syslogs as:

May 11 08:58:39 XXXXXX remote_access: Packet filter does not exist. User
woodnet.wce.wwu.edu access denied.

Contrary to the statement, access is not denied.

This version has been found vulnerable:

Equipment: US Robotics/3Com Total Control Chassis
Card: Netserver PRI
OS: Total Control (tm) NETServer Card V.34/ISDN with Frame Relay V3.7.24

This problem does not exist on earlier versions, specifically we have tried
Total Control (tm) NETServer Card V.34/ISDN with Frame Relay V3.6.22

Exploit / POC

3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Solution / Fix

3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

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