I gave a talk at the BSides 2019 Vienna about PHP Object Injection. Here is the abstract of this talk:

Identifier: AIT-SA-20191129-01
Target: OkayCMS
Vendor: OkayCMS
Version: all versions including 2.3.4
CVE: CVE-2019-16885
Accessibility: Local
Severity: Critical
Author: Wolfgang Hotwagner (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)

Summary

OkayCMS is a simple and functional content managment system for an online store.

Identifier: AIT-SA-20191112-01

Target: FreeRadius
Vendor: FreeRadius
Version: all versions including 3.0.19
Fixed in Version: 12.2.3, 12.1.8 and 12.0.8
CVE: CVE-2019-10143
Accessibility: Local
Severity: Low
Author: Wolfgang Hotwagner (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)

Summary

FreeRadius is a modular Open-Source RADIUS suite.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.