CVE-2016-9554
Sophos Web Appliance Remote Command Injection Vulnerability
Description
The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this->dtObj->executeCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.
INFO
Published Date :
Jan. 28, 2017, 12:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
March 13, 2017, 2:58 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
1.2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2016-9554.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| http://pastebin.com/UB8Ye6ZU | Exploit |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95858 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 | Release Notes |
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 13, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 No Types Assigned https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 Release Notes Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95858 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95858 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type http://pastebin.com/UB8Ye6ZU No Types Assigned http://pastebin.com/UB8Ye6ZU Exploit Added CWE CWE-77 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:sophos:web_appliance:4.2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 24, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://pastebin.com/UB8Ye6ZU [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 01, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95858 [No Types Assigned]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-9554 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-9554
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
3.40 }} 0.69%
score
0.91436
percentile