AlienVault OSSIM 4.1.2 - Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

2013-05-14 17:05:06

RunRunLevel Web Security Research - AlienVault OSSIM multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities
Vendor Website : http://www.alienvault.com

INDEX
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1. Background
2. Description
3. Affected Products
4. Vulnerabilities
5. Solution
6. Credit
7. Disclosure Timeline


1. BACKGROUND
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OSSIM by AlienVault is an Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform, comprising a collection of tools designed to aid network administrator in computer security, intrusion detection and prevention. (Wikipedia)


2. DESCRIPTION
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The RunRunLevel Web Security Research Team discovered several vulnerabilities in the OSSIM web interface. All web vulnerabilities are caused by lack/unproper input validation. The Web Security Reseach Team also found that OSSIM MySQL database was running with root privileges, allowing to a full system compromise of the OSSIM platform.


3. AFFECTED PRODUCTS
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AlienVault OSSIM 4.1.2 (stable version and below)


4. VULNERABILITIES
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The vulnerabilities can be classified as "SQL Injection". No input validation is performed when processing parameters on the following URL's:

4.1 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [action_lst[0] parameter]
4.2 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [action_lst[1] parameter]
4.3 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [action_lst[18] parameter]
4.4 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [action_lst[6] parameter]
4.5 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [hostid[0] parameter]
4.6 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [sort_order parameter]
4.7 /ossim/forensics/base_qry_main.php [time[0][8] parameter]
4.8 /ossim/net/getnet.php [sortname parameter]
4.9 /ossim/session/users_edit.php [login parameter]
4.10 /ossim/session/users_edit.php [name parameter]

Together with the SQLi vulns was found that the MySQL Database server was running with system administrator privileges.

4.11 MySQL database running with root privileges


5. SOLUTION
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Vendor contacted, but no response provided.


6. CREDIT
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The vulnerabilities were discovered by the RunRunLevel Web Security Research Team.


7. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
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2013-03-01 - Vulnerability Discovered
2013-03-10 - Vendor Informed
2013-04-01 - No Response from Vendor
2013-05-01 - No Response from Vendor
2013-05-09 - Public Disclosure

Fixes

No fixes

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