Overland Storage Snap Server 410 less privilege escalation
| snapserver-less-priv-escalation (53881) |  High Risk |
Description:
Overland Storage Snap Server 410 could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges, caused by improper validation of user supplied input to the less command. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the -! attribute to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7.2 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Complete |
| Integrity Impact: | Complete |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 6.8 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Oct 20 2009: Overland Guardian OS CLI command line bug - let you get uid 0 shell.
- J-Security Web site: Overland Storage Snap Server 410 'less' Command Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability.
- Overland Storage Web site: Snap Server 410.
- BID-36739: Overland Storage Snap Server 410 'less' Command Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- CVE-2009-4607: The command line interface in Overland Storage Snap Server 410 with GuardianOS 5.1.041 runs the less utility with a higher-privileged uid than the CLI user and without sufficient restriction on shell escapes, which allows local users to gain privileges using the ! character within less to access a privileged shell.
- OSVDB ID: 61789: Overland Storage Snap Server GuardianOS CLI less Utility Escape Weakness Local Privilege Escalation
Platforms Affected:
- Overland Storage GuardianOS 5.1.041
- Overland Storage Snap Server 410
Reported:
Oct 20, 2009
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