Quantum Secular Labs / Blog / Advisories

CVE-2018-1000666: Gig Jumpscale: Command injection

CVE-2018-1000666 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.0 base score of 9.8 and affects Gig Jumpscale, along with 1 other product in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

GIG Technology NV JumpScale Portal 7 version before commit 15443122ed2b1cbfd7bdefc048bf106f075becdb contains a CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in method: notifySpaceModification; that can result in Improper validation of parameters results in command execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Network connectivity, required minimal auth privileges (everyone can register an account). This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in After commit 15443122ed2b1cbfd7bdefc048bf106f075becdb.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.0 9.8: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
• Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
• Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
• User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
• Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
• Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
• Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command before it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected products

• Gig Jumpscale: 7
• Openvcloud Project: before 2.3.0

References

• https://github.com/0-complexity/openvcloud/issues/1207
• https://github.com/jumpscale7/jumpscale_portal/blob/c997bb1824862b08246d60e34e950df06ebac68c/apps/portalbase/system/system__contentmanager/methodclass/system_contentmanager.py#L293-L315
• https://telegra.ph/Description-of-vulnerability-in-JumpScale-Portal-7-08-23
• https://github.com/jumpscale7/jumpscale_portal/pull/108
• https://medium.com/%40vrico315/vulnerability-in-jumpscale-portal-7-a88098a1caca