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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9413
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Release Date:
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2003-08-01
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
System access
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.x
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2003-0148 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2003-0149 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2003-0616 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in ePolicy Orchestrator allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges or gain system access.
1) By sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the ePolicy Orchestrator server, it is possible to retreive the configuration file containing the username and password for the MSDE SA account. Although the password is encrypted, this is done using a DES variant and the secret key is stored in a DLL file.
This allows a malicious user to gain administrative (SA) privileges on MSDE. Furthermore, MSDE runs with "SYSTEM" privileges allowing the malicious user to gain complete control of the system.
2) By sending a malicious HTTP POST request to the server with a specially crafted format string, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code or cause the HTTP service to crash. The problem is that the server fails to handle format strings when logging failed name resolutions.
3) By sending a large HTTP POST request to the client, it is possible to cause a heap overflow. This causes the service to crash but may also allow execution of arbitrary code.
Issue 1 affects to ePolicy Orchestrator 2 and 3.
Issue 2 and 3 affects ePolicy Orchestrator 2.
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Solution:
Patches are available:
http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/hotfixes.asp
Provided and/or discovered by:
Andreas Junestam, @stake
Original Advisory:
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a073103-1.txt
http://www.nai.com/us/promos/mcafee/epo_vulnerabilities.asp
Other References:
McAfee has also written a knowledge base article (NAI33260) about this:
https://knowledgemap.nai.com/phpclient/homepage.aspx (login required)
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10 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. McAfee Common Management Agent Framework Service Denial of Service
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2. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Service Format String Vulnerability
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3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Common Management Agent Vulnerabilities
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4. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot ActiveX Control Buffer Overflows
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5. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Source Header Buffer Overflow
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6. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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7. ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Insecure Directory Permissions
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8. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator HTTP POST Request Handling Vulnerability
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9. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Invalid "Content-Length:" Denial of Service
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10. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Format String Vulnerability
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