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Authentication Abuse
An attacker obtains unauthorized access to an application, service or device either through knowledge of the inherent weaknesses of an authentication mechanism, or by exploiting a flaw in the authentication scheme's implementation. In such an attack an authentication mechanism is functioning but a carefully controlled sequence of events causes the mechanism to grant access to the attacker. This attack may exploit assumptions made by the target's authentication procedures, such as assumptions regarding trust relationships or assumptions regarding the generation of secret values. This attack differs from Authentication Bypass attacks in that Authentication Abuse allows the attacker to be certified as a valid user through illegitimate means, while Authentication Bypass allows the user to access protected material without ever being certified as an authenticated user. This attack does not rely on prior sessions established by successfully authenticating users, as relied upon for the "Exploitation of Session Variables, Resource IDs and other Trusted Credentials" attack patterns.
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Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client.
An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client.
There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
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Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Register Man in the Middle
This attack utilizes a REST(REpresentational State Transfer)-style applications' trust in the system resources and environment to place man in the middle once SSL is terminated. Rest applications premise is that they leverage existing infrastructure to deliver web services functionality. An example of this is a Rest application that uses HTTP Get methods and receives a HTTP response with an XML document. These Rest style web services are deployed on existing infrastructure such as Apache and IIS web servers with no SOAP stack required. Unfortunately from a security standpoint, there frequently is no interoperable identity security mechanism deployed, so Rest developers often fall back to SSL to deliver security. In large data centers, SSL is typically terminated at the edge of the network - at the firewall, load balancer, or router. Once the SSL is terminated the HTTP request is in the clear (unless developers have hashed or encrypted the values, but this is rare). The attacker can utilize a sniffer such as Wireshark to snapshot the credentials, such as username and password that are passed in the clear once SSL is terminated.
Once the attacker gathers these credentials, they can submit requests to the web service provider just as authorized user do. There is not typically an authentication on the client side, beyond what is passed in the request itself so once this is compromised, then this is generally sufficient to compromise the service's authentication scheme.
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Man in the Middle Attack
This type of attack targets the communication between two components (typically client and server). The attacker places himself in the communication channel between the two components. Whenever one component attempts to communicate with the other (data flow, authentication challenges, etc.), the data first goes to the attacker, who has the opportunity to observe or alter it, and it is then passed on to the other component as if it was never intercepted. This interposition is transparent leaving the two compromised components unaware of the potential corruption or leakage of their communications. The potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks yields an implicit lack of trust in communication or identify between two components.
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NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0004.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0004 :
Updated OpenSSL packages that correct a security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a
full-strength, general purpose, cryptography library.
The Google security team discovered a flaw in the way OpenSSL checked
the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a
malicious server, or able to effect a 'man in the middle' attack,
could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain
to a vulnerable client and bypass validation. (CVE-2008-5077)
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to
take effect, all running OpenSSL client applications must be
restarted, or the system rebooted. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2016-12-07 | plugin id | 67783 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67783 | title | Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : openssl (ELSA-2009-0004) |
NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks | NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-1701.NASL | description | It was discovered that OpenSSL does not properly verify DSA signatures
on X.509 certificates due to an API misuse, potentially leading to the
acceptance of incorrect X.509 certificates as genuine (CVE-2008-5077
). | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 35364 | published | 2009-01-14 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35364 | title | Debian DSA-1701-1 : openssl, openssl097 - interpretation conflict |
NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0004.NASL | description | Updated OpenSSL packages that correct a security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a
full-strength, general purpose, cryptography library.
The Google security team discovered a flaw in the way OpenSSL checked
the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a
malicious server, or able to effect a 'man in the middle' attack,
could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain
to a vulnerable client and bypass validation. (CVE-2008-5077)
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to
take effect, all running OpenSSL client applications must be
restarted, or the system rebooted. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-27 | plugin id | 35316 | published | 2009-01-08 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35316 | title | RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 / 5 : openssl (RHSA-2009:0004) |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0046.NASL | description | Updated ntp packages to correct a security issue are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with a referenced time source.
A flaw was discovered in the way the ntpd daemon checked the return
value of the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function. On systems using NTPv4
authentication, this could lead to an incorrect verification of
cryptographic signatures, allowing time-spoofing attacks.
(CVE-2009-0021)
Note: This issue only affects systems that have enabled NTP
authentication. By default, NTP authentication is not enabled.
All ntp users are advised to upgrade to the updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the
update, the ntpd daemon will restart automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-28 | plugin id | 43728 | published | 2010-01-06 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=43728 | title | CentOS 4 / 5 : ntp (CESA-2009:0046) |
NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0020.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0020 :
Updated Bind packages to correct a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols.
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND checked the return value of the
OpenSSL DSA_do_verify function. On systems using DNSSEC, a malicious
zone could present a malformed DSA certificate and bypass proper
certificate validation, allowing spoofing attacks. (CVE-2009-0025)
For users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 this update also addresses a
bug which can cause BIND to occasionally exit with an assertion
failure.
All BIND users are advised to upgrade to the updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing
the update, BIND daemon will be restarted automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2019-01-02 | plugin id | 67792 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67792 | title | Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : bind (ELSA-2009-0020) |
NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0046.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0046 :
Updated ntp packages to correct a security issue are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with a referenced time source.
A flaw was discovered in the way the ntpd daemon checked the return
value of the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function. On systems using NTPv4
authentication, this could lead to an incorrect verification of
cryptographic signatures, allowing time-spoofing attacks.
(CVE-2009-0021)
Note: This issue only affects systems that have enabled NTP
authentication. By default, NTP authentication is not enabled.
All ntp users are advised to upgrade to the updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the
update, the ntpd daemon will restart automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2019-01-02 | plugin id | 67793 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67793 | title | Oracle Linux 4 / 5 : ntp (ELSA-2009-0046) |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0004.NASL | description | Updated OpenSSL packages that correct a security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a
full-strength, general purpose, cryptography library.
The Google security team discovered a flaw in the way OpenSSL checked
the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a
malicious server, or able to effect a 'man in the middle' attack,
could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain
to a vulnerable client and bypass validation. (CVE-2008-5077)
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to
take effect, all running OpenSSL client applications must be
restarted, or the system rebooted. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 35310 | published | 2009-01-08 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35310 | title | CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : openssl (CESA-2009:0004) |
NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-705-1.NASL | description | It was discovered that NTP did not properly perform signature
verification. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass
certificate validation via a malformed SSL/TLS signature.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-23 | plugin id | 37876 | published | 2009-04-23 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=37876 | title | Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-705-1) |
NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-706-1.NASL | description | It was discovered that Bind did not properly perform signature
verification. When DNSSEC with DSA signatures are in use, a remote
attacker could exploit this to bypass signature validation to spoof
DNS entries and poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead
to misdirected email and web traffic.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-28 | plugin id | 36220 | published | 2009-04-23 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=36220 | title | Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : bind9 vulnerability (USN-706-1) |
NASL family | VMware ESX Local Security Checks | NASL id | VMWARE_VMSA-2009-0004.NASL | description | a. Updated OpenSSL package for the Service Console fixes a
security issue.
OpenSSL 0.9.7a-33.24 and earlier does not properly check the return
value from the EVP_VerifyFinal function, which could allow a remote
attacker to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a
malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-5077 to this issue.
b. Update bind package for the Service Console fixes a security issue.
A flaw was discovered in the way Berkeley Internet Name Domain
(BIND) checked the return value of the OpenSSL DSA_do_verify
function. On systems using DNSSEC, a malicious zone could present
a malformed DSA certificate and bypass proper certificate
validation, allowing spoofing attacks.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2009-0025 to this issue.
c. Updated vim package for the Service Console addresses several
security issues.
Several input flaws were found in Visual editor IMproved's (Vim)
keyword and tag handling. If Vim looked up a document's maliciously
crafted tag or keyword, it was possible to execute arbitrary code as
the user running Vim.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-4101 to this issue.
A heap-based overflow flaw was discovered in Vim's expansion of file
name patterns with shell wildcards. An attacker could create a
specially crafted file or directory name, when opened by Vim causes
the application to stop responding or execute arbitrary code.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-3432 to this issue.
Several input flaws were found in various Vim system functions. If a
user opened a specially crafted file, it was possible to execute
arbitrary code as the user running Vim.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-2712 to this issue.
A format string flaw was discovered in Vim's help tag processor. If
a user was tricked into executing the 'helptags' command on
malicious data, arbitrary code could be executed with the
permissions of the user running VIM.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2007-2953 to this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-08-06 | plugin id | 40389 | published | 2009-07-27 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=40389 | title | VMSA-2009-0004 : ESX Service Console updates for openssl, bind, and vim |
NASL family | Solaris Local Security Checks | NASL id | SOLARIS10_X86_139501.NASL | description | SunOS 5.10_x86: openssl patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Feb/24/09 | last seen | 2018-09-02 | modified | 2018-08-13 | plugin id | 36555 | published | 2009-04-23 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=36555 | title | Solaris 10 (x86) : 139501-02 |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0020.NASL | description | Updated Bind packages to correct a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols.
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND checked the return value of the
OpenSSL DSA_do_verify function. On systems using DNSSEC, a malicious
zone could present a malformed DSA certificate and bypass proper
certificate validation, allowing spoofing attacks. (CVE-2009-0025)
For users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 this update also addresses a
bug which can cause BIND to occasionally exit with an assertion
failure.
All BIND users are advised to upgrade to the updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing
the update, BIND daemon will be restarted automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-28 | plugin id | 35589 | published | 2009-02-05 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35589 | title | CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : bind (CESA-2009:0020) |
NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0046.NASL | description | Updated ntp packages to correct a security issue are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with a referenced time source.
A flaw was discovered in the way the ntpd daemon checked the return
value of the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function. On systems using NTPv4
authentication, this could lead to an incorrect verification of
cryptographic signatures, allowing time-spoofing attacks.
(CVE-2009-0021)
Note: This issue only affects systems that have enabled NTP
authentication. By default, NTP authentication is not enabled.
All ntp users are advised to upgrade to the updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the
update, the ntpd daemon will restart automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2019-01-02 | plugin id | 35551 | published | 2009-01-29 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35551 | title | RHEL 4 / 5 : ntp (RHSA-2009:0046) |
NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks | NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-1702.NASL | description | It has been discovered that NTP, an implementation of the Network Time
Protocol, does not properly check the result of an OpenSSL function
for verifying cryptographic signatures, which may ultimately lead to
the acceptance of unauthenticated time information. (Note that
cryptographic authentication of time servers is often not enabled in
the first place.) | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 35365 | published | 2009-01-14 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35365 | title | Debian DSA-1702-1 : ntp - interpretation conflict |
NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0020.NASL | description | Updated Bind packages to correct a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols.
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND checked the return value of the
OpenSSL DSA_do_verify function. On systems using DNSSEC, a malicious
zone could present a malformed DSA certificate and bypass proper
certificate validation, allowing spoofing attacks. (CVE-2009-0025)
For users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 this update also addresses a
bug which can cause BIND to occasionally exit with an assertion
failure.
All BIND users are advised to upgrade to the updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing
the update, BIND daemon will be restarted automatically. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2019-01-02 | plugin id | 35324 | published | 2009-01-09 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=35324 | title | RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 / 5 : bind (RHSA-2009:0020) |
NASL family | Solaris Local Security Checks | NASL id | SOLARIS10_139500.NASL | description | SunOS 5.10: openssl patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Apr/01/09 | last seen | 2018-09-01 | modified | 2018-08-13 | plugin id | 38118 | published | 2009-04-23 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=38118 | title | Solaris 10 (sparc) : 139500-04 |
NASL family | Solaris Local Security Checks | NASL id | SOLARIS10_X86_139501-02.NASL | description | SunOS 5.10_x86: openssl patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Feb/24/09 | last seen | 2019-01-19 | modified | 2019-01-18 | plugin id | 108014 | published | 2018-03-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=108014 | title | Solaris 10 (x86) : 139501-02 |
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