Advisory Details

November 10th, 2015

AlienVault Unified Security Management av-forward Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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 av-forward Python daemon. A remote attacker can cause the daemon to deserialize arbitrary cPickle objects. This vulnerability can be leveraged to gain remote code execution under the context of the avforw account.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	AlienVault has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/5830/
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-06-25 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-11-10 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	agix

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