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CVE-2018-7739
published 2018-03-07

CVE-2018-7739: antsle antman before 0.9.1a allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via invalid characters in the username and password parameters, as demonstrated by…

PriorityP277critical9.8CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH
EXPLOIT
EPSS
54.56%
98.9th percentile
antsle antman before 0.9.1a allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via invalid characters in the username and password parameters, as demonstrated by a username=>&password=%0a string to the /login URI. This allows obtaining root permissions within the web management console, because the login process uses Java's ProcessBuilder class and a bash script called antsle-auth with insufficient input validation.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
antsleantman<= 0.9.0c

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url/login
commandusername= > &password=%0a
port3000
pathantsle-auth
  • Detect POST requests to /login containing shell redirection characters (>) in the username parameter, indicating attempted command injection via the antsle-auth bash script.
  • Monitor web traffic on port 3000 (antMan management console) for authentication bypass attempts using invalid/special characters in login POST parameters.
  • The login process uses Java's ProcessBuilder class and a bash script called antsle-auth; monitor process spawning from the antMan web service for unexpected shell child processes.
  • ·The authentication bypass only affects antMan versions before 0.9.1a; ensure the patched version is deployed to remediate the vulnerability.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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