Advisory Details

April 29th, 2015

AlienVault Unified Security Management Plugin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-3446
CVSS SCORE	9.3, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	AlienVault
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Unified Security Management
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of AlienVault Unified Security Management. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the AlienVault framework daemon which permits remote unauthenticated changes to its .cfg file. A specially crafted plugin configuration file can specify a custom function which can contain arbitrary Python code. An attacker can exploit this condition to achieve code execution under the context of the root user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	AlienVault has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/4415/
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-01-06 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-04-29 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Spencer McIntyre

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