SolarWinds Virtualization Manager - Local Privilege Escalation
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | SolarWinds Virtualization Manager - Privilege Escalation | 16 Jun 201600:00 | – | zdt |
 | CVE-2016-3643 | 17 Jun 201600:00 | – | attackerkb |
 | SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation | 19 Jul 201600:00 | – | bdu_fstec |
 | CVE-2016-3643 | 8 Nov 202108:58 | – | circl |
 | SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability | 3 Nov 202100:00 | – | cisa_kev |
 | SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Gain Vulnerability | 20 Jun 201600:00 | – | cnvd |
 | CVE-2016-3643 | 17 Jun 201615:00 | – | cve |
 | CVE-2016-3643 | 17 Jun 201615:00 | – | cvelist |
 | SolarWinds Virtualization Manager - Local Privilege Escalation | 16 Jun 201600:00 | – | exploitdb |
 | EUVD-2016-4668 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd |
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Product: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager
Vendor: Solarwinds
Vulnerable Version(s): < 6.3.1
Tested Version: 6.3.1
Vendor Notification: April 25th, 2016
Vendor Patch Availability to Customers: June 1st, 2016
Public Disclosure: June 14th, 2016
Vulnerability Type: Security Misconfiguration
CVE Reference: CVE-2016-3643
Risk Level: High
CVSSv2 Base Score: 7.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:W/RC:C/CR:M/IR:M/AR:M/MAV:L/MAC:L/MPR:L/MUI:N/MS:C/MC:H/MI:H/MA:H)
Solution Status: Solution Available
Discovered and Provided: Nate Kettlewell, Depth Security ( https://www.depthsecurity.com/ )
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Advisory Details:
Depth Security discovered a vulnerability in Solarwinds Virtualization Manager appliance.
This attack requires a user to have an operating system shell on the vulnerable appliance.
1) Misconfiguration of sudo in Solarwinds Virtualization Manager: CVE-2016-3643
The vulnerability exists due to the miconfiguration of sudo in that it allows any local user to use sudo to execute commands as the superuser.
A local attacker can obtain root privileges to the operating system regardless of privilege level.
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Solution:
Solarwinds has released a hotfix to remediate this vulnerability on existing installations.
This flaw as well as several others have been corrected and that release has been put into manufacturing for new appliances.
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Proof of Concept:
The following is an example of the commands necessary for a low-privileged user to dump the contents of the "/etc/shadow" file by using sudo.
sudo cat /etc/passwd
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References:
[1] Solarwinds Virtualization Manager- http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager - Solarwinds Virtualization Manager provides monitoring and remediation for virtualized environments.Data
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16 Jun 2016 00:00Current
7.8High risk
Vulners AI Score7.8
EPSS0.03674