Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Openswan

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

EUVDB-ID: #VU45036

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2147

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Openswan: 2.2.0 - 2.2.1

External links

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html
http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67822

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.