CVE-2021-20109 Information

Description

Due to the Asset Explorer agent not validating HTTPS certificates an attacker on the network can statically configure their IP address to match the Asset Explorer’s Server IP address. This will allow an attacker to send a NEWSCAN request to a listening agent on the network as well as receive the agent’s HTTP request verifying its authtoken. In AEAgent.cpp the agent responding back over HTTP is vulnerable to a Heap Overflow if the POST payload response is too large. The POST payload response is converted to Unicode using vswprintf. This is written to a buffer only 0x2000 bytes big. If POST payload is larger then heap overflow will occur.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-30

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5