CAPEC の説明

An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

CAPEC の情報

実行フロー

1) Explore

[Identify target mail server] The adversary identifies a target mail server that they wish to attack.

技法

Use Nmap on a system to identify a mail server service.

2) Explore

[Determine viability of attack] Determine whether the mail server is unpatched and is potentially vulnerable to one of the known MIME conversion buffer overflows (e.g. Sendmail 8.8.3 and 8.8.4).

3) Experiment

[Find injection vector] Identify places in the system where vulnerable MIME conversion routines may be used.

4) Experiment

[Craft overflow content] The adversary crafts e-mail messages with special headers that will cause a buffer overflow for the vulnerable MIME conversion routine. The intent of this attack is to leverage the overflow for execution of arbitrary code and gain access to the mail server machine, so the adversary will craft an email that not only overflows the targeted buffer but does so in such a way that the overwritten return address is replaced with one of the adversary's choosing.

技法

Create malicious shellcode that will execute when the program execution is returned to it.
Use a NOP-sled in the overflow content to more easily "slide" into the malicious code. This is done so that the exact return address need not be correct, only in the range of all of the NOPs

4) Exploit

[Overflow the buffer] Send e-mail messages to the target system with specially crafted headers that trigger the buffer overflow and execute the shell code.

前提条件

The target system uses a mail server.
Mail server vendor has not released a patch for the MIME conversion routine, the patch itself has a security hole or does not fix the original problem, or the patch has not been applied to the user's system.

必要なスキル

It may be trivial to cause a DoS via this attack pattern
Causing arbitrary code to execute on the target system.

緩和策

Stay up to date with third party vendor patches
Use the sendmail restricted shell program (smrsh)
Use mail.local

関連する弱点

CWE-ID	弱点名
CWE-120	Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.
CWE-74	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.
CWE-20	Improper Input Validation The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

参考文献

REF-1

Exploiting Software: How to Break Code
G. Hoglund, G. McGraw.

REF-364

CERT Advisory CA-1997-05 MIME Conversion Buffer Overflow in Sendmail Versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-05.html

登録情報

名前	組織	日付	リリース日
CAPEC Content Team	The MITRE Corporation	2014-06-23 +00:00

変更履歴

名前	組織	日付	コメント
CAPEC Content Team	The MITRE Corporation	2021-10-21 +00:00	Updated Execution_Flow
CAPEC Content Team	The MITRE Corporation	2022-09-29 +00:00	Updated Example_Instances, Mitigations

CAPEC-42 詳細

CAPEC-42