Security Advisory: MVSA-10-008 / CVE-2010-0154 Vendor: IBM Products: Proventia Network Mail Security System Vulnerabilities: Insecure Direct Object Reference Risk: Medium Attack Vector: From Remote Authentication: Required Reference: http://www.ventuneac.net/security-advisories/MVSA-10-008 Description Web-based Local Management Interface (LMI) of IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System appliance (firmware 1.6) is vulnerable to an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability. When exploited by an authenticated attacker, such vulnerability could lead to compromising the security of the appliance, allowing OS command execution, local file inclusion resulting in exposure of appliance configuration files, source code, etc. The affected resource is not part of the IBM PNMSS firmware 2.5. By manipulating the l parameter of /sla/index.php resource, an authenticated attacker can perform any of the above attacks. The following test case can be used to expose internal system configuration for PHP engine: url_placeholder/sla/index.php?l=/../../../../../../../../etc/php.ini Affected Versions IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System - virtual appliance (firmware 1.6) Mitigation Vendor recommends upgrading to PNMSS firmware 2.5 or later. Alternatively, please contact IBM for technical support. Disclosure Timeline 2009, November 07: Vulnerabilities discovered and documented 2009, November 08: Notification sent to IBM 2009, November 09: IBM acknowledges receiving the report 2010, September 12: MVSA-10-008 advisory published. Credits Dr. Marian Ventuneac http://ventuneac.net