Bug 990321 (CVE-2013-4482) - CVE-2013-4482 luci: paster hidden untrusted path and "command" (callable association) injection
Summary: CVE-2013-4482 luci: paster hidden untrusted path and "command" (callable asso...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4482
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1005385
Blocks: 974906 990750
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Reported: 2013-07-30 21:51 UTC by Jan Pokorný [poki]
Modified: 2023-05-13 00:35 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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A flaw was found in the way the luci service was initialized. If a system administrator started the luci service from a directory that was writable to by a local user, that user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the root or luci user.
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Last Closed: 2013-11-21 14:25:36 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1603 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: luci security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-11-21 00:39:24 UTC

Comment 12 Tomas Hoger 2013-10-30 12:01:11 UTC 
The luci uses python-paste-script / paster to start serving its web application.  paster searches current working directory and parent directories of CWD for python *.egg-info files or directories.  These are used to define additional commands recognized by the paster script, or to add additional paths to sys.path for the started web application.  luci failed to force safe CWD to compensate for this feature of paster.  If system administrator started luci service while in untrusted directory (e.g. in /tmp), a local user with write permission to the directory could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root or luci user privileges.

This issue was addressed by changing service init script to change current working directory before starting luci.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Jan Pokorný of Red Hat.
Comment 13 Tomas Hoger 2013-11-20 19:01:18 UTC 
Lifting embargo.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 10:33:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1603 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1603.html
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