CVE-2020-24046 (GCVE-0-2020-24046)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-17 16:39
Modified
2024-08-04 15:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
A sandbox escape issue was discovered in TitanHQ SpamTitan Gateway 7.07. It limits the admin user to a restricted shell, allowing execution of a small number of tools of the operating system. This restricted shell can be bypassed after changing the properties of the user admin in the operating system file /etc/passwd. This file cannot be accessed though the restricted shell, but it can be modified by abusing the Backup/Import Backup functionality of the web interface. An authenticated attacker would be able to obtain the file /var/tmp/admin.passwd after executing a Backup operation. This file can be manually modified to change the GUID of the user to 0 (root) and change the restricted shell to a normal shell /bin/sh. After the modification is done, the file can be recompressed to a .tar.bz file and imported again via the Import Backup functionality. The properties of the admin user will be overwritten and a root shell will be granted to the user upon the next successful login.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/felmoltorThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sensepost.com/blog/2020/clash-of-the-spamtitan/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/felmoltorThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.titanhq.comVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/felmoltorThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sensepost.com/blog/2020/clash-of-the-spamtitan/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://twitter.com/felmoltorThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.titanhq.comVendor Advisory
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