Core Security Technologies Advisory 2009.0114

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HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability in Sun Delegated Administrator  
  
  
  
1. *Advisory Information*  
  
Title: HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability in Sun Delegated Administrator  
Advisory ID: CORE-2009-0114  
Advisory URL:  
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/sun-delegated-administrator  
Date published: 2009-04-21  
Date of last update: 2009-04-21  
Vendors contacted: Sun Microsystems  
Release mode: Coordinated release  
  
  
2. *Vulnerability Information*  
  
Class: HTTP response splitting  
Remotely Exploitable: Yes  
Locally Exploitable: No  
Bugtraq ID: 34643  
CVE Name: CVE-2009-1357  
  
  
3. *Vulnerability Description*  
  
An HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability [1][2] has been discovered in  
Sun Java System Delegated Administrator. HTTP Response Splitting occurs  
when an attacker has the possibility of injecting a carriage return  
(0x0D) or a line feed (0x0A) character sequence into the HTTP headers of  
the web server's response. This allows proxy cache-poisoning attacks  
that affect the proxy users base when requesting a web page that belongs  
to the affected domain, redirection attacks or other kind of Cross-Site  
Scripting attacks.  
  
  
4. *Vulnerable packages*  
  
4.1. *Sparc Platform*  
  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.2.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.3.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 without patch 121581-20.  
  
  
4.2. *x86 Platform*  
  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.2.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.3.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 without patch 121582-20.  
  
  
4.3. *Linux Platform *  
  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.2.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.3.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 without patch 121583-20.  
  
  
5. *Non-vulnerable packages*  
  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 with patch 121581-20  
(Sparc) or later.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 with patch 121582-20  
(x86) or later.  
. Sun Java System Delegated Administrator 6.4 with patch 121583-20  
(Linux) or later.  
  
  
6. *Vendor Information, Solutions and Workarounds*  
  
Sun Microsystems has published a Sun Alert for this issue. It has been  
assigned the ID 255928 and is available at the following URL  
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-255928-1.  
  
  
7. *Credits*  
  
This vulnerability was discovered by the SCS team [3] from Core Security  
Technologies.  
  
  
8. *Technical Description / Proof of Concept Code*  
  
The parameter 'HELP_PAGE' of the web application located at  
https://<server>/da/DA/Login is vulnerable to a response splitting  
vulnerability.  
  
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$ openssl s_client -connect <server>:443  
  
GET  
/da/DA/Login?Login.HelpHREF=http://www.vulnerable-site.com/&com_sun_web_ui_popup=false&HELP_PAGE=/help/%0AX-Tag:%20Core%20Security%20Technologies%0A%0D&jato.pageSession=  
HTTP/1.1  
Host: <server>  
  
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily  
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0  
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:21:48 GMT  
Cache-control: private  
Location: <server>  
X-Tag: Core Security Technologies  
Content-length: 0  
Content-type: text/html  
  
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9. *Report Timeline*  
  
. 2009-01-14: Core Security Technologies notifies Sun Delegated  
Administrator Team of the vulnerability and sends technical details.  
Core asks the vendor an estimated date for the release of patches and  
fixes.  
. 2009-01-14: Sun Delegated Administrator Team responds they will  
investigate this issue and provide the expected timeframe for a fix as  
soon as possible.  
. 2009-01-21: Core asks the vendor an estimated date for the release of  
patches and fixes.  
. 2009-01-21: Sun engineering team responds they are working on other  
vulnerabilities reported by Core [4] and they are attempting to engage  
the proper engineering team for the DA server.  
. 2009-02-06: Sun engineering team has been investigating this issue and  
they are able to confirm that it is indeed a valid vulnerability.  
. 2009-02-16: Sun engineering team informs that they are still working  
on others flaws reported by Core [4], and they hope to have a more  
detailed update regarding the progress on the DA vulnerability shortly.  
. 2009-02-16: Core acknowledges previous email.  
. 2009-03-23: Vendor informs that the fix for Delegated Administrator  
Server is still on-going, and will likely not be ready by the end of March.  
. 2009-04-08: Vendor confirms that a fix for the Delegated Administrator  
is available. This fix is currently undergoing Sun standard testing.  
Vendor expects to be ready to publish the patch and the Sun Alert on  
Monday 20th April 2009.  
. 2009-04-17: Core asks Sun engineering team an URL for the Sun Alert  
and the DA affected versions for this vulnerability.  
. 2009-04-20: Sun kindly sends Core the requested information.  
. 2009-04-21: The advisory CORE-2009-0114 is published.  
  
  
10. *References*  
  
[1]  
http://packetstormsecurity.org/papers/general/whitepaper_httpresponse.pdf.  
[2]  
http://www.webappsec.org/projects/threat/classes/http_response_splitting.shtml.  
  
[3] Core Security Consulting Services -  
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/services-overview-core-security-consulting-services.  
  
[4] Multiple vulnerabilities in Sun Calendar Express Web Server -  
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/sun-calendar-express.  
  
  
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12. *About Core Security Technologies*  
  
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Security Technologies can be reached at 617-399-6980 or on the Web at  
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13. *Disclaimer*  
  
The contents of this advisory are copyright (c) 2009 Core Security  
Technologies and (c) 2009 CoreLabs, and may be distributed freely  
provided that no fee is charged for this distribution and proper credit  
is given.  
  
  
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