[UNIX] TWiki Command Execution Vulnerability

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TWiki Command Execution Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

<http://www.twiki.org/> TWiki - "A flexible, powerful, and easy to use
enterprise collaboration platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used
to run a project development space, a document management system, a
knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the
internet."

A potential security issue discovered in, TWiki: The TWiki history,
function that allows arbitrary shell command execution.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* TWiki Release 02Sep2004[2]
* TWiki Release 01Sep2004[3]
* TWiki Release 01Feb2003[4]
* TWiki Release 01Dec2001[5]
* TWiki Release 01Dec2000[6]

Immune Systems:
* Recent Dakar Releases[7] (upcoming production release, soon)
* TWiki Release 01Sep2004 patched with Florian Weimer's
UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005[8]

The TWiki revision control function uses a user supplied URL parameter to
compose a command line executed by the Perl backtick (``) operator.

The URL parameter is not checked properly for shell metacharacters and is
thus vulnerable to revision numbers containing pipes and shell commands.
Exploit is possible on topics with two or more revisions.

Example URL path with exploited rev parameter:
/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiUsers?rev=2%20%7Cless%20/etc/passwd

If access to TWiki is not restricted by other means, attackers can use the
revision function without prior authentication.
See Also: SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithSearch[9] and
UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005[8]

Fix:
* Apply hotfix (see patches below)
* Upgrade to the latest patched production TWikiRelease03Sep2004[1]
* Apply patch of UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005[6] (but see known
issues of that patch)
* Filter access to the web server
* Use the web server software to restrict access to the web pages served
by TWiki

CVE Information:
<http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2877>
CAN-2005-2877

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The original article can be found at:
<http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev>
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev

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