CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
97.3%
**Title:**Artweaver Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
**Advisory ID:**CORE-2013-0701
**Advisory URL:**http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/artweaver-buffer-overflow-vulnerability
**Date published:**2013-07-22
**Date of last update:**2013-07-22
**Vendors contacted:**Artweaver
**Release mode:**Coordinated release
**Class:**Buffer overflow [CWE-119]
**Impact:**Code execution
**Remotely Exploitable:**Yes
**Locally Exploitable:**No
CVE Name:CVE-2013-2576
Artweaver [1], [2] is prone to a security vulnerability when processing AWD files. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target machine by enticing Artweaver users to open a specially crafted file.
Vendor notifies that Artweaver v3.1.6 and v4.0 are available and fix the reported vulnerability. Vendor encourages all Artweaver users to update to the latest version:
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Daniel Kazimirow from Core Exploit Writers Team. The publication of this advisory was coordinated by Fernando Miranda from Core Advisories Team.
Below is shown the result of opening the maliciously crafted file CORE-2013-0701-artweaver-poc-28ab190b137f3.AWD
[3], which means the normal execution flow can be altered in order to execute arbitrary code.
004F3265 8B45 FC MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-4] 004F3268 8B40 28 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[EAX+28] 004F326B 8B10 MOV EDX,DWORD PTR DS:[EAX] 004F326D FF12 CALL DWORD PTR DS:[EDX] ; <--- crash DS:[45454545]=??? EAX 030F9C48 ASCII "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ECX 019983F0 EDX 45454545 EBX 019983F0 ESP 0012FB7C EBP 0012FB90 ESI 00000000 EDI 00000013 EIP 004F326D Artweave.004F326D C 0 ES 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) P 1 CS 001B 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) A 0 SS 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) Z 0 DS 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) S 0 FS 003B 32bit 7FFDF000(FFF) T 0 GS 0000 NULL D 0 O 0 LastErr ERROR_SUCCESS (00000000) EFL 00010206 (NO,NB,NE,A,NS,PE,GE,G) ST0 empty -??? FFFF 00005FEE 0F0566FB ST1 empty -??? FFFF 00000000 0F05070D ST2 empty -??? FFFF 00000000 00060010 ST3 empty -??? FFFF 00000000 002C006F ST4 empty -NAN FFFF 8F669BF5 EFE5EDFD ST5 empty 6.0925232094539560960e+16 ST6 empty -7.8331661972355807100e+18 ST7 empty 5.8691123250627328000e+16 3 2 1 0 E S P U O Z D I FST 0020 Cond 0 0 0 0 Err 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 (GT) FCW 1372 Prec NEAR,64 Mask 1 1 0 0 1 0
[1] <http://www.artweaver.de>.
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