IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment TCP to ODBC Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

October 8th, 2010
ZDI-10-194 ZDI-CAN-781

CVE ID

CVSS Score

10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Vendors

IBM

Affected Products

Tivoli Provisioning Manager

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries on vulnerable installations of Tivoli Provisioning Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the TCP to ODBC gateway component which listens by default on TCP port 2020. Authentication is not required to issue SQL queries to the service. A remote attacker can abuse this to read, modify, or create records within the database.

Additional Details

IBM has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.tivoli.tpm.osd.doc%2Finstall%2Ftosd_setmsacessdbpwd.html

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2010-07-06 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-10-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

AbdulAziz Hariri

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