CVE-2018-3968 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the verified boot protection of the Das U-Boot from version 2013.07-rc1 to 2014.07-rc2. The affected versions lack proper FIT signature enforcement, which allows an attacker to bypass U-Boot's verified boot and execute an unsigned kernel, embedded in a legacy image format. To trigger this vulnerability, a local attacker needs to be able to supply the image to boot.

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the verified boot protection of the Das U-Boot from version 2013.07-rc1 to 2014.07-rc2. The affected versions lack proper FIT signature enforcement, which allows an attacker to bypass U-Boot's verified boot and execute an unsigned kernel, embedded in a legacy image format. To trigger this vulnerability, a local attacker needs to be able to supply the image to boot.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

CWE-347

In the following code, a JarFile object is created from a downloaded file.


               
JarFile jf = new JarFile(f);

The JAR file that was potentially downloaded from an untrusted source is created without verifying the signature (if present). An alternate constructor that accepts a boolean verify parameter should be used instead.

Overview

Type

Denx

First reported 5 years ago

2019-03-21 17:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-02 13:49:00

Affected Software

Denx U-boot

Denx U-Boot 2013.07 Release Candidate 1

2013.07

Denx U-Boot 2013.07 Release Candidate 2

2013.07

Denx U-Boot 2013.07 Release Candidate 3

2013.07

Denx U-Boot 2014.07 Release Candidate 1

2014.07

Denx U-Boot 2014.07 Release Candidate 2

2014.07

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