National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1742
Original release date:04/13/2007
Last revised:11/13/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
suexec in Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.2.3 uses a partial comparison for verifying whether the current directory is within the document root, which might allow local users to perform unauthorized operations on incorrect directories, as demonstrated using "html_backup" and "htmleditor" under an "html" directory. NOTE: the researcher, who is reliable, claims that the vendor disputes the issue because "the attacks described rely on an insecure server configuration" in which the user "has write access to the document root."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
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- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/19/2007)
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These attacks are reliant on an insecure configuration of the server - that the user the server runs as has write access to the document root. The suexec security model is not intented to protect against privilege escalation in such a configuration
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External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017904
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 38640
External Source: MLIST
Name: [apache-http-dev] 20070328 Re: [Fwd: iDefense Final Notice [IDEF1445]]
External Source: MLIST
Name: [apache-http-dev] 20070328 [Fwd: iDefense Final Notice [IDEF1445]]
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20070411 Apache HTTPD suEXEC Multiple Vulnerabilities