Fith Anniversary
I started this blog five years ago. In the beginning I wrote mostly articles about sysadmin and programming. Now its also filled with security related stuff. It's fascinating for me to have a history of my interests. It's sadly that my spare time got rare and so it happens that I don't write much lately. My intention for the next 5 years is, to be more consequent with writing articles.
CVE-2019-15741: Privilege Escalation via Logrotate in Gitlab Omnibus
Overview
- Identifier: AIT-SA-20190930-01
- Target: GitLab Omnibus
- Vendor: GitLab
- Version: 7.4 through 12.2.1
- Fixed in Version: 12.2.3, 12.1.8 and 12.0.8
- CVE: CVE-2019-15741
- Accessibility: Local
- Severity: Low
- Author: Wolfgang Hotwagner (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Vulnerability Description
GitLab Omnibus sets the ownership of the log directory to the system-user "git", which might let local users obtain root access because of unsafe interaction with logrotate.
Privilege escalation in groonga-httpd (CVE-2019-11675)
Overview
- System affected: Debian packages of groonga/-httpd 6.1.5-1
- Software-Version: 6.1.5-1
- User-Interaction: Not required
- Impact: Local root
- CVE: CVE-2019-11675
Detailed Description
The path of the logdirectory of groonga-httpd can be manipulated by user groonga:
Anatomy of a Linux container rootkit
This year I gave a talk at the Easterhegg 2019 about a Linux kernel rootkit that can handle containers. I mainly presented my Bachelor work from 2017 with some improvements.
Details of a logrotate race-condition
Logrotate is prone to a race-condition on systems with a log directory that is in control of a low privileged user. A malicious user could trick logrotate to create files in any directory if it is executed as root. This might lead into a privileged escalation.
Abusing a race condition in logrotate to elevate privileges
Together with a friend we took part of the Capture The Flag at the 35C3. One challenge was that one:
Logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. It also gives you a root shell.
Merry Christmas
I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
What the hack is "E-Brief"
This week I received an email from my bank company. They advertised that they are cooperating with the "Post"(Austrian mailprovider) and recommended to use "E-Brief" for notifications from them. My first thought was: "it's E-Mail". Because E-Brief translated from german means: "E-Mail". So I took a look in the FAQ's from the Post and they wrote things like(translated from German):
Your E-"Letter Box" from everywhere
High security