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A number of vulnerabilities have surfaced in the Operating System (OS) supported in ACOS 3.x and 4.x. Accordingly, the following vulnerabilities are addressed in this document.
| Item # | Vulnerability ID | Score Source | Score | Summary |
| 1 | CVE-2018-1111 | CVSS 3.0 | 7.5 High | DHCP Command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client NetworkManager integration script [1] |
| 2 | CVE-2016-1000110 | Red Hat | 5.0 Med | Python CGIHandler: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header [2] |
| 3 | CVE-2016-5699 | CVSS 3.0 | 6.1 Med | python: http protocol steam injection attack [3] |
| 4 | CVE-2016-5636 | CVSS 3.0 | 9.8 Critical | python: Heap overflow in zipimporter module [4] |
| 5 | CVE-2016-0772 | CVSS 3.0 | 4.8 Med | python: smtplib StartTLS stripping attack [5] |
The table below indicates releases of ACOS exposed to these vulnerabilities and ACOS releases that address these issues or are otherwise unaffected by them.
Customers using affected ACOS releases can overcome vulnerability exposures by updating to the indicated resolved release. If the table does not list a corresponding resolved or unaffected release, then no ACOS release update is currently available.
| Releases Affected | Releases Resolved or Unaffected |
|---|---|
| 4.1.4 – 4.1.4-P1 | 4.1.4-P2 |
| 4.1.2 – 4.1.2-P4 | 4.1.2-P5 |
| 4.1.1 – 4.1.1-P8 | 4.1.1-P9 |
| 4.1.100 – 4.1.100-P5 | 4.1.100-P5-SP1 |
| 4.1.0 – 4.1.0-P11 | 4.1.0-P12 |
| 3.1.0-P1 – 3.2.2-P5 | 3.2.2-P6, 3.2.3 |
Common security best practices in the industry for network appliance management and control planes can enhance protection against remote malicious attacks. Limit the exploitable attack surface for critical, infrastructure, networking equipment through the use of access lists or firewall filters to and from only trusted, administrative networks or hosts.
Software updates that address these vulnerabilities are or will be published at the following URL:
https://www.a10networks.com/support/axseries/software-downloads
The following table shares brief descriptions of the vulnerabilities addressed in this document.
| Vulnerability ID | Vulnerability Description |
|---|---|
| CVE-2018-1111 |
DHCP packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 28, and earlier are vulnerable to a command injection flaw in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol. |
| CVE-2016-1000110 |
It was discovered that the Python CGIHandler class did not properly protect against the HTTP_PROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a Python CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request. |
| CVE-2016-5699 |
It was found that the Python's httplib library (used by urllib, urllib2 and others) did not properly check HTTPConnection.putheader() function arguments. An attacker could use this flaw to inject additional headers in a Python application that allowed user provided header names or values. |
| CVE-2016-5636 |
A vulnerability was discovered in Python, in the built-in zipimporter. A specially crafted zip file placed in a module path such that it would be loaded by a later "import" statement could cause a heap overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution. |
| CVE-2016-0772 |
It was found that Python's smtplib library did not return an exception when StartTLS failed to be established in the SMTP.starttls() function. A man in the middle attacker could strip out the STARTTLS command without generating an exception on the Python SMTP client application, preventing the establishment of the TLS layer. |
The following table shares brief descriptions for the vulnerabilities addressed in this document.
| Ref # | General Link |
|---|---|
| [1] | NIST NVD, CVE-2018-1111 |
| [2] | NIST NVD, CVE-2016-1000110 |
| [3] | NIST NVD, CVE-2016-5699 |
| [4] | NIST NVD, CVE-2016-5636 |
| [5] | NIST NVD, CVE-2016-0772 |
None.
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | September 14, 2018 |
Initial Publication |
| 2.0 | October 11, 2019 |
Added 4.1.100 release family. |
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