Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

I recently blogged about how the installation process of version 5.0.0 of this plugin could be hihacked by a local attacker or malware in order to escalate privileges to root. Hashicorp pushed some mitigations for this issue fairly quickly but unfortunately 5.0.1 is still exploitable with a...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.23 - Local Privilege Escalation

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.23 - Local Privilege Escalation A couple of weeks ago I disclosed a local root privesc in Hashicorp's vagrant-vmware-fusion plugin: https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmw... The initial patch they released was 4.0.21 which...

CVE-2017-16882

Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account and similarly can have etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-roo...

Vulnerability in contrib module (CVE-2017-12172)

Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

CVE-2017-9780

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

SGI IRIX <= 6.4 startmidi Vulnerabilty

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/469/info A vulnerability exists in the startmidi program from Silicon Graphics. This utility is included with Irix versions 5.x and 6.x with the Iris Digital Media Execution Environment. startmidi is setuid root, and...

SGI IRIX 6.5.x FAM Arbitrary Root Owned Directory File Listing Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5487/info fam is a freely available, open source file alteration monitor. It is maintained and distributed by SGI, and will work on the Linux and Unix operating systems. It is possible for a user to execute fam to discove...

glibc LD_AUDIT arbitrary DSO load Privilege Escalation

No description provided by source. !/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using...

AIX 5.3 TL 12 : cmdque (IV51388)

Printer commands mkque and mkquedev are susceptible to buffer overflow by users belonging to the 'printq' group. These commands are owned by 'root' and SUID bit set. The group is set to 'printq'. By default, no users are belong to the 'printq'. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability 3/6/2013 Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0 The infiniband diagnostic utiltiy handles files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious user can clobber root owned files with common symlink attacks. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ nobody@exdb01...

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp File Clobber

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability 3/6/2013 Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0 The infiniband diagnostic utiltiy handles files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious user can clobber root owned files with common symlink attacks. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ nobody@exdb01...

Oracle Auto Service Request File Clobber

Oracle Auto Service Request /tmp file clobbering vulnerability http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/premier/auto-service-request-155415.html http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E1847601/doc.220/e18478/asr.htm I noticed it creates files insecurely in /tmp using time stamps instead of mkstemp. You can...

Oracle Auto Service Request File Clobber

Oracle Auto Service Request software package creates files insecurely in /tmp using time stamps instead of mkstemp. You can clobber root owned files if you know when around the time the root administrator will be using this utility. larry@oracle-os-lab01 tmp$ for x in seq 500 999; do ln -s...

AIX 5.3 TL 8 : swcons (IZ18334)

A file permission/ownership vulnerability exists in the 'bos.rte.console' fileset command listed below whereby a local attacker may create arbitrary contents within a file owned by root using the 'swcons' command. The local attacker must be a member of the 'system' group gid=0 to execute this...

Another Solaris 10 Patch Cluster Symlink Attack

Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In patches/137097-01/SUNWcsr/reloc/lib/svc/method/inetd-upgrade lines : 72...

Solaris 10 Patch 137097-01 Symlink Attack Privilege Escalation

Exploit for solaris platform in category local exploits Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In...

glibc LD_AUDIT Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for...

DISA STIG SRR Still Vulnerable

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After the issue in CVE-2009-4211 was made public, the Unix SRR script was removed from http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/SRR/unix.html with a note saying: ?Due to a recently identified security issue, please do not run any version of the UNIX SRR scripts unt...