CVE-2013-3608 - Improper Input Validation

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The web interface in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) implementation on Supermicro H8DC*, H8DG*, H8SCM-F, H8SGL-F, H8SM*, X7SP*, X8DT*, X8SI*, X9DAX-*, X9DB*, X9DR*, X9QR*, X9SBAA-F, X9SC*, X9SPU-F, and X9SR* devices allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated by the IP address field in config_date_time.cgi.

The web interface in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) implementation on Supermicro H8DC*, H8DG*, H8SCM-F, H8SGL-F, H8SM*, X7SP*, X8DT*, X8SI*, X9DAX-*, X9DB*, X9DR*, X9QR*, X9SBAA-F, X9SC*, X9SPU-F, and X9SR* devices allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated by the IP address field in config_date_time.cgi.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Demo Examples

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example demonstrates a shopping interaction in which the user is free to specify the quantity of items to be purchased and a total is calculated.


               
...

The user has no control over the price variable, however the code does not prevent a negative value from being specified for quantity. If an attacker were to provide a negative value, then the user would have their account credited instead of debited.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example asks the user for a height and width of an m X n game board with a maximum dimension of 100 squares.


               
.../* board dimensions */
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("Value too large: Die evil hacker!\n");

While this code checks to make sure the user cannot specify large, positive integers and consume too much memory, it does not check for negative values supplied by the user. As a result, an attacker can perform a resource consumption (CWE-400) attack against this program by specifying two, large negative values that will not overflow, resulting in a very large memory allocation (CWE-789) and possibly a system crash. Alternatively, an attacker can provide very large negative values which will cause an integer overflow (CWE-190) and unexpected behavior will follow depending on how the values are treated in the remainder of the program.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example shows a PHP application in which the programmer attempts to display a user's birthday and homepage.


               
echo "Birthday: $birthday<br>Homepage: <a href=$homepage>click here</a>"

The programmer intended for $birthday to be in a date format and $homepage to be a valid URL. However, since the values are derived from an HTTP request, if an attacker can trick a victim into clicking a crafted URL with <script> tags providing the values for birthday and / or homepage, then the script will run on the client's browser when the web server echoes the content. Notice that even if the programmer were to defend the $birthday variable by restricting input to integers and dashes, it would still be possible for an attacker to provide a string of the form:


               
2009-01-09--

If this data were used in a SQL statement, it would treat the remainder of the statement as a comment. The comment could disable other security-related logic in the statement. In this case, encoding combined with input validation would be a more useful protection mechanism.

Furthermore, an XSS (CWE-79) attack or SQL injection (CWE-89) are just a few of the potential consequences when input validation is not used. Depending on the context of the code, CRLF Injection (CWE-93), Argument Injection (CWE-88), or Command Injection (CWE-77) may also be possible.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This function attempts to extract a pair of numbers from a user-supplied string.


               
}
die("Did not specify integer value. Die evil hacker!\n");
/* proceed assuming n and m are initialized correctly */

This code attempts to extract two integer values out of a formatted, user-supplied input. However, if an attacker were to provide an input of the form:


               
123:

then only the m variable will be initialized. Subsequent use of n may result in the use of an uninitialized variable (CWE-457).

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example takes a user-supplied value to allocate an array of objects and then operates on the array.


               
}
list[0] = new Widget();
die("Negative value supplied for list size, die evil hacker!");

This example attempts to build a list from a user-specified value, and even checks to ensure a non-negative value is supplied. If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:


               
}......
}
}
int length = URL.length();
...

The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.

Overview

Type

SuperMicro

First reported 11 years ago

2013-09-08 03:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-11-15 02:29:00

Affected Software

SuperMicro H8DCL-6F

SuperMicro H8DCL-IF

SuperMicro H8DCT-HIBQF

SuperMicro H8DCT-HLN4F

SuperMicro H8DCT-IBQF

SuperMicro H8DG6-F

SuperMicro H8DGG-QF

SuperMicro H8DGI-F

SuperMicro H8DGT-HF

SuperMicro H8DGT-HIBQF

SuperMicro H8DGT-HLF

SuperMicro H8DGT-HLIBQF

SuperMicro H8DGU-F

SuperMicro H8DGU-LN4F+

SuperMicro H8SCM-F

SuperMicro H8SQL-F

SuperMicro H8SME-F

SuperMicro H8SML-7

SuperMicro H8SML-7F

SuperMicro H8SML-I

SuperMicro H8SML-IF

SuperMicro X7SPA-HF

SuperMicro X7SPA-HF-525

SuperMicro X7SPE-H-D525

SuperMicro X7SPE-HF

SuperMicro X7SPE-HF-D525

SuperMicro X7SPT-DF-D525

SuperMicro X7SPT-DF-D525+

SuperMicro X8DTL-3F

SuperMicro X8DTL-6F

SuperMicro X8DTL-IF

SuperMicro X8DTN+-F

SuperMicro X8DTN+-F-LR

SuperMicro X8DTU-6+

SuperMicro X8DTU-6+-LR

SuperMicro X8DTU-6TF+

SuperMicro X8DTU-6TF+-LR

SuperMicro X8DTU-LNF+

SuperMicro X8DTU-LN4F+-LR

SuperMicro X8SI6-F

SuperMicro X8SIA-F

SuperMicro X8SIE-F

SuperMicro X8SIE-LN4F

SuperMicro X8SIL-T

SuperMicro X8SIT-F

SuperMicro X8SIT-HF

SuperMicro X8SIU-F

SuperMicro X9DAX-7F

SuperMicro X9DAX-7F-HFT

SuperMicro X9DAX-7TF

SuperMicro X9DAX-IF

SuperMicro X9DAX-IF-HFT

SuperMicro X9DAX-ITF

SuperMicro X9DB3-F

SuperMicro X9DB3-TPF

SuperMicro X9DBI-F

SuperMicro X9DBI-TPF

SuperMicro X9DBL-3F

SuperMicro X9DBL-IF

SuperMicro X9DBU-3F

SuperMicro X9DBU-IF

SuperMicro X9DR3-F

SuperMicro X9DR3-LN4F+

SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F

SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F-JBOD

SuperMicro X9DR7-TF+

SuperMicro X9DRD-7JLN4F

SuperMicro X9DRD-7LN4F

SuperMicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD

SuperMicro X9DRD-EF

SuperMicro X9DRD-IF

SuperMicro X9DRE-LN4F

SuperMicro X9DRE-TF+

SuperMicro X9DRFF

SuperMicro X9DRFF-7

SuperMicro X9DRFF-7+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-7G+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-7T+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-7TG+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-I+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-IG+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-IT+

SuperMicro X9DRFF-ITG+

SuperMicro X9DRFR

SuperMicro X9DRG-HF

SuperMicro X9DRG-HF+

SuperMicro X9DRG-HTF

SuperMicro X9DRG-HTF+

SuperMicro X9DRH-7F

SuperMicro X9DRH-7TF

SuperMicro X9DRH-IF

SuperMicro X9DRH-ITF

SuperMicro X9DRI-F

SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+

SuperMicro X9DRL-3F

SuperMicro X9DRL-EF

SuperMicro X9DRL-IF

SuperMicro X9DRT-F

SuperMicro X9DRT-H6F

SuperMicro X9DRT-H6IBFF

SuperMicro X9DRT-H6IBQF

SuperMicro X9DRT-HF+

SuperMicro X9DRT-IBFF

SuperMicro X9DRT-IBQF

SuperMicro X9DRW-3LN4+

SuperMicro X9DRW-3TF+

SuperMicro X9DRW-7TPF+

SuperMicro X9DRW-ITPF+

SuperMicro X9DRX+-F

SuperMicro X9QR7-TF

SuperMicro X9QR7-TF+

SuperMicro X9QR7-TF-JBOD

SuperMicro X9QRI-F

SuperMicro X9QRI-F+

SuperMicro X9SBAA-F

SuperMicro X9SCA-F

SuperMicro X9SCD-F

SuperMicro X9SCE-F

SuperMicro X9SCFF-F

SuperMicro X9SCI-LN4F

SuperMicro X9SCL+-F

SuperMicro X9SCL-F

SuperMicro X9SCM-F

SuperMicro X9SCM-IIF

SuperMicro X9SPU-F

SuperMicro X9SRD-F

SuperMicro X9SRE-3F

SuperMicro X9SRE-F

SuperMicro X9SRG-F

SuperMicro X9SRI-3F

SuperMicro X9SRI-F

SuperMicro X9SRL-F

SuperMicro X9SRW-F

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