Bug 1317990 (Badlock, CVE-2016-2118) - CVE-2016-2118 samba: SAMR and LSA man in the middle attacks
Summary: CVE-2016-2118 samba: SAMR and LSA man in the middle attacks
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: Badlock, CVE-2016-2118
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1322684 1322685 1322686 1322687 1322688 1322689 1322690 1322691 1322692 1324800 1324801 1324802 1324803 1324804 1324805 1324806 1324807 1325382 1325383 1325384 1325385 1325645 1325649 1325650 1325651 1325832 1325838 1326453
Blocks: 1311915
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-15 17:17 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:09 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version: samba 4.4.1, samba 4.3.7, samba 4.2.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A protocol flaw, publicly referred to as Badlock, was found in the Security Account Manager Remote Protocol (MS-SAMR) and the Local Security Authority (Domain Policy) Remote Protocol (MS-LSAD). Any authenticated DCE/RPC connection that a client initiates against a server could be used by a man-in-the-middle attacker to impersonate the authenticated user against the SAMR or LSA service on the server. As a result, the attacker would be able to get read/write access to the Security Account Manager database, and use this to reveal all passwords or any other potentially sensitive information in that database.
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Last Closed: 2016-04-19 05:49:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Article) 2243351 0 None None None 2016-04-12 23:52:51 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Article) 2253041 0 None None None 2016-04-12 23:53:15 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2255271 0 None None None 2016-04-12 23:53:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0611 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security update 2016-04-13 11:04:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0612 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba and samba4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-13 05:06:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0613 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba3x security update 2016-04-12 21:37:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0614 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-13 01:38:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0618 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-13 05:25:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0619 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security update 2016-04-12 23:33:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0620 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-13 01:20:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0621 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: samba security update 2016-04-14 15:00:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0623 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: samba security update 2016-04-14 14:59:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0624 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba3x security update 2016-04-12 23:15:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0625 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: samba security update 2016-04-14 14:59:29 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-15 17:17:41 UTC 
It was reported that various samba versions are vulnerable to man in the middle attack where attacker can intercept any DCERPC traffic between a client and a server in order to impersonate the client and get the same privileges as the authenticated user account. This is most problematic against active directory domain controllers.

Description
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The Security Account Manager Remote Protocol [MS-SAMR] and the Local Security Authority (Domain Policy) Remote Protocol [MS-LSAD] are both vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Both are application level protocols based on the generic DCE 1.1 Remote Procedure Call (DCERPC) protocol.

These protocols are typically available on all Windows installations as well as every Samba servers. They are used to maintain the Security Account Manager Database. This is applies to all roles, e.g. standalone, domain member, domain controller.

Any authenticated DCERPC connection a client initiates against a server can be used by a man in the middle to impersonate the authenticated user against the SAMR or LSAD service on the server. 

The client choosen application protocol, auth type (e.g. Kerberos or NTLMSSP) and auth level (NONE, CONNECT, PKT_INTEGRITY, PKT_PRIVACY) does not matter in this case.

As result a man in the middle is able to get read/write access to the Security Account Manager Database, which reveals all passwords and any other potential sensitive information.

Workaround
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You may lower risk by avoiding to login/authenticate with privileged accounts over unprotected networks. Privileged accounts should only be used on the physical console (server) console, so that authentication does not involve any network communication.

If the machine is acting as client workstation you may restrict any incoming network traffic by a firewall.

External Reference:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2243351
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2253041
http://badlock.org/
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-15 17:17:51 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Samba project
Upstream: Stefan Metzmacher (SerNet)
Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-04-12 17:13:21 UTC 
Public via:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2118.html
Comment 10 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-12 17:28:59 UTC 
Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1326453]
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 17:34:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0611 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0611.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 17:39:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2016:0613 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0613.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 17:40:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2016:0621 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0621.html
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 19:17:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long Life
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life

Via RHSA-2016:0624 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0624.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 19:18:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long Life
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life

Via RHSA-2016:0623 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0623.html
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 19:34:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support

Via RHSA-2016:0619 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0619.html
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 21:21:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Lifecycle Support

Via RHSA-2016:0625 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0625.html
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 21:25:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support

Via RHSA-2016:0620 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0620.html
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-12 21:40:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7
  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2016:0614 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0614.html
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-13 01:07:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0612 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0612.html
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-13 01:27:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2016:0618 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0618.html
Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2016-04-13 20:21:56 UTC 
samba-4.3.8-0.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 23 Fedora Update System 2016-04-14 04:21:38 UTC 
samba-4.2.11-0.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 25 Fedora Update System 2016-04-15 03:17:26 UTC 
samba-4.4.2-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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