Sophos Endpoint Protection 10.7 Insecure Cryptography

`[+] Credits: John Page (aka hyp3rlinx)   
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org  
[+] Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/SOPHOS-ENDPOINT-PROTECTION-CONTROL-PANEL-v10.7-INSECURE-CRYPTO-CVE-2018-9233.txt  
[+] ISR: Apparition Security   
  
  
  
Vendor:  
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www.sophos.com  
  
  
  
Product:  
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Sophos Endpoint Protection - Control Panel v10.7  
  
Sophos Endpoint Protection helps secure your workstation by adding prevention, detection, and response technology on top of your operating system.  
Sophos Endpoint Protection is designed for workstations running Windows and macOS. It adds exploit technique mitigations, CryptoGuard anti-ransomware,  
anti-malware, web security, malicious traffic detection, and deep system cleanup.  
  
  
  
Vulnerability Type:  
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Insecure Crypto  
  
  
  
CVE Reference:  
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CVE-2018-9233  
  
  
  
Security Issue:  
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Sophos endpoint protection control panel authentication uses weak unsalted unicoded cryptographic hash (SHA1) function, not using salt allows attackers that gain access to hash   
ability to conduct faster cracking attacks using pre-computed dictionaries, e.g. rainbow tables. This can potentially result in unauthorized access that could allow for  
changing of settings, whitelist or unquarantine files.  
  
Password and config for Sophos endpoint protection control panel is stored here:  
C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Config\machine.xml  
  
e.g.  
  
SHA1 (Unicode) encoding non salted pass = abc123  
  
<TamperProtectionManagement><settings>  
<enabled>true</enabled><password>689307D2FC53AF0FB941BC1BB42737CE4F3EF540</password></settings>  
</TamperProtectionManagement>  
  
  
Using PHP's sha1 function with "mb_convert_encoding" as UTF-16LE we can verify.  
  
C:\>php -r "print sha1(mb_convert_encoding('abc123', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-8'));"  
689307d2fc53af0fb941bc1bb42737ce4f3ef540  
  
  
  
Network Access:  
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Local  
  
  
  
Severity:  
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Low  
  
  
Disclosure Timeline:  
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Vendor Notification: December 4, 2017  
Vendor Acknowledgement: December 12, 2017  
Vendor request additional time before disclosing.  
additional time has passed.  
April 4, 2018 : Public Disclosure  
  
  
  
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or exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).  
  
hyp3rlinx  
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