Privilege escalation in HP Operations Agent

1) Insecure library loading

EUVDB-ID: #VU25044

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 8.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2630

CWE-ID: CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Exploit availability: Yes

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to the xglance-bin application from HP Operations Agent loads libraries in an insecure manner. A local user can place a specially crafted library into one of the "lib64" folder on the system and execute arbitrary code with root privileges, as the xglance-bin is a SetUID program.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Operations Agent: 8.53 - 11.0

External links

http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-2630/
http://redtimmysec.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/perf-exploiter/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, a fully functional exploit for this vulnerability is available.