Bug 1607283 (CVE-2018-4182) - CVE-2018-4182 cups: Sandbox bypass due to insecure error handling
Summary: CVE-2018-4182 cups: Sandbox bypass due to insecure error handling
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-4182
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1607293 1607295
Blocks: 1607292
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-23 08:08 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:55 UTC (History)
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A Sandbox bypass has been discovered in cups on macOS due to insecure error handling. An attacker that has obtained sandboxed root access can use this flow to escape the sandbox.
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Last Closed: 2018-07-25 09:18:58 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-07-23 08:08:50 UTC 
It is possible to cause cups-exec to execute backends without a sandbox profile by causing cupsdCreateProfile() to fail.  An attacker that has obtained sandboxed root access can accomplish this by setting the CUPS temporary directory to immutable using chflags, which will prevent the profile from being written to disk.

References:

https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2018/7/11/cups-local-privilege-escalation-and-sandbox-escapes.html

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/d47f6aec436e0e9df6554436e391471097686ecc
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-07-23 08:31:41 UTC 
Created cups tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1607293]
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2018-07-25 09:16:40 UTC 
Fedora and RHEL are not affected by this flaw since Sandbox feature is not enabled on Linux.
Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-08-28 13:00:24 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of cups as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as cups on Linux does not support the Sandbox feature.
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