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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:56:49 -0400
From: "Larry W. Cashdollar" <larry0@...com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: Vulnerabilities in WordPress Database Manager
v2.7.1
Hello,
My comments are below.
On Oct 20, 2014, at 1:48 PM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>
>
> > only a few queries are allowed (Use Only INSERT, UPDATE, REPLACE,
> > DELETE, CREATE and ALTER statements.) but these are sufficient to
> > download sensitive system files:
>
> > INSERT into password (passwords) VALUES(LOAD_FILE("/etc/passwd"));
>
> This report seems related to:
>
> if ( preg_match( "/LOAD_FILE/i", $sql_query ) ) {
>
> in the
>
> https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-dbmanager/commit/7037fa8f61644098044379190d1d4bf1883b8e4a
>
> commit. Our question here is whether this is best categorized as a
> WP-DBManager vulnerability fix, or a workaround for a MySQL
> misconfiguration. It seems that, ideally, if WP-DBManager is not
> supposed to be able to use MySQL to read arbitrary files, then this
> would have been addressed with the configuration of the FILE privilege
> or the secure_file_priv variable.
>
> Presumably there are other products in which users are intended to be
> able to use INSERT, but are not intended to be able to use LOAD_FILE.
> It's not clear that, for every such product, doing preg_match for
> /LOAD_FILE/i is the recommended approach, and absence of this approach
> means that a CVE ID is assigned.
>
> Also, in the WP-DBManager case, CREATE is allowed, and this could
> conceivably mean that CREATE FUNCTION is available (again, depending
> on the MySQL privilege configuration), possibly resulting in the user
> gaining unintended access to the server machine and its local
> filesystem.
>
> Should there be one CVE ID now for "attempts to offer a subset of
> MySQL statements without considering the possible MySQL privilege
> configurations" as applied to the LOAD_FILE attack, and then other
> "incomplete fix" CVE IDs later if a new attack against 2.7.2/2.7.3 is
> disclosed?
It seems to me this would be the best approach. I hadn’t considered it originally, but it
makes the most sense.
>
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