I. BACKGROUND
ELOG is an electronic logbook package. ELOG can be installed on Windows and Unix systems as a standalone application or as part of the Midas package, also developed by the same author. Detailed information about ELOG is available at http://midas.psi.ch/elog/.
II. DESCRIPTION
Numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in Stefan Ritt's Electronic Logbook (ELOG).
ELOG is an electronic logbook available for Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Three separate classes of vulnerabilities have been discovered in ELOG: a remotely exploitable format-string vulnerability, many remotely exploitable buffer-overflow conditions, and the mismanagement of sensitive data by the web interface.
Format String Vulnerability
Line 10,754 in the file elogd.c contains the following vulnerable snippet of code:
printf(net_buffer);
Buffer Overflows
The file elogd.c contains many vulnerable snippets of code that create remotely exploitable buffer overflow conditions.
Insecure Handling of Sensitive Data
Several web pages created by the ELOG daemon store passwords in plaintext within hidden form fields.
III. ANALYSIS
Any remote user with access to an affected server could exploit any of the above-described vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation would provide the remote attacker with access to the target server under the privileges of the user that spawned the ELOG daemon. The attacker could then utilize local privilege escalation attacks to further compromise the system.
iDEFENSE has proof of concept exploit code demonstrating the impact of this vulnerability.
IV. DETECTION
iDEFENSE has verified the existence of these vulnerabilities in the latest versions of ELOG, versions 2.2.2 and 2.2.3.
V. WORKAROUND
Restrict access to the ELOG daemon to only trusted users. Use a filtering proxy to help mitigate attacks.
VI. VENDOR FIX
Reportedly, this issue was fixed in version 2.2.4 of ELOG
VII. CVE INFORMATION
A Mitre Corp. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number has not been assigned to this issue.
VIII. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
| 11/30/2002 |
Exploit acquired by iDEFENSE |
| 12/03/2002 |
Initial vendor notification |
| 12/21/2002 |
iDEFENSE Clients notified |
| 12/29/2002 |
Public Disclosure |
IX. CREDIT
zilli0n is credited with this discovery.
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