Affected Systems
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Vulnerability Details
Vulnerability Description
The Barracuda WAF management application transmits the current user and session identifier over HTTP GET.
Technical Description
The HTTP URL shown below contains both the username and a md5 hash. This information is transmitted over a plaintext network connection. The password parameter can be seen more like a session identifier whose values are valid for a maximum of five days.
GET /cgi-bin/index.cgi?password=c12954a040d3a239f05ae63378131045&et=1480178788&auth_type=Local&locale=en_US&page_submitted=1&primary_tab=ADVANCED&secondary_tab=troubleshooting&user=admin HTTP/1.1
Host: 1.3.3.8:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://1.3.3.8:8000/cgi-bin/index.cgi?&user=admin&password=d8bcadb76eb1f0c22423e1ec6264bc9c&et=1480178786&locale=en_US&primary_tab=ADVANCED&secondary_tab=troubleshooting&file=report_.tar.gz&refresh=1
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: BarracudaHTTP 4.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Expires: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:26:42 GMT
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:26:42 GMT
Content-length: 100997
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
[snip]Mitigation and Remediation Recommendation
The vendor has patched this vulnerability in the latest virtual appliance release.
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by Matt Bergin (@thatguylevel) of KoreLogic, Inc. and Joshua Hardin.
Proof of Concept
See 3. Technical Description
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Disclosure Timeline
KoreLogic sends vulnerability report and PoC to Barracuda.
Barracuda acknowledges receipt of the vulnerability report.
Barracuda informs KoreLogic that they are working on remediation for this issue.
Barracuda asks for additional time beyond the standard 45 business day embargo to address this and other issues reported by KoreLogic.
45 business days have elapsed since the issue was reported.
75 business days have elapsed since the issue was reported.
100 business days have elapsed since the issue was reported.
Barracuda updates KoreLogic on the status of the remediation efforts.
120 business days have elapsed since the issue was reported.
Barracuda informs KoreLogic that the issue has been fixed in the latest release of the WAF virtual appliance.
KoreLogic public disclosure.
Responsible Disclosure
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