{"id":17287,"date":"2018-10-29T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/this-two-year-old-x-org-give-me-root-hole-is-so-trivial-to-exploit-you-can-fit-it-in-a-single-tweet\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:50:36","slug":"this-two-year-old-x-org-give-me-root-hole-is-so-trivial-to-exploit-you-can-fit-it-in-a-single-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/this-two-year-old-x-org-give-me-root-hole-is-so-trivial-to-exploit-you-can-fit-it-in-a-single-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2016\/09\/28\/shutterstock_patch.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>X.org, the X Window server used by various desktop Linux and BSD operating systems, has \u2013 depending on its configuration \u2013 a security vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root powers.<\/p>\n<p>If a vulnerable version of X.org runs on a system as setuid root, it can be abused by normal logged-in users to gain administrator-level control over the machine. That would allow a miscreant to tamper with files, install spyware, and so on. Some Linux distros don&#8217;t use X.org with elevated privileges, or are otherwise immune \u2013 such as CentOS; check for security updates anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the flaw, designated <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14665\">CVE-2018-14665<\/a>, can be exploited to inject user-supplied code into a root-privileged X.org process, via the -modulepath command line switch, or overwrite files on the system, via the -logfile switch. The latter can be used to overwrite the shadow password file on a computer to allow access to the root user without a password.<\/p>\n<p>This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14665\">Red Hat bug report<\/a> described it as \u201can incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting X.Org,&#8221; adding: &#8220;X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s trivially exploitable, as Matthew Hickey, cofounder of British security shop Hacker House, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hackerfantastic\/status\/1055517801224396800\">tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre>\ncd \/etc; Xorg -fp \"root::16431:0:99999:7:::\" -logfile shadow :1;su\n<\/pre>\n<p>This, the tweet explained, will \u201coverwrite shadow (or any) file on most Linux, get root privileges. *BSD and any other X.org desktop also affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bug is so simple, it&#8217;s amazing that it slipped through into OpenBSD 6.4: usually the OS is more resilient to such attacks,&#8221; he told <em>The Register<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst part is this type of bug is a classic 1990s-era mistake: overwriting files requires no complex memory corruption techniques. A few simple commands and you can become root. It&#8217;s going to be widespread in a lot of places, and as it&#8217;s so easy to exploit, it will be used quickly by attackers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weaknesses in the desktop components have been a source of privilege escalation attacks for years, but we haven&#8217;t seen one this trivial to exploit for some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>X.Org&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lists.x.org\/archives\/xorg-announce\/2018-October\/002927.html\">advisory<\/a> goes into more detail, and explains why the bug isn&#8217;t present across all operating system distributions. The bug was introduced in X.Org server 1.19.0, released in November 2016, and discovered by Narendra Shinde.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.freedesktop.org\/xorg\/xserver\/commit\/50c0cf885a6e91c0ea71fb49fa8f1b7c86fe330e\">patch<\/a>, there are workarounds: either remove the setuid bit from the X.Org binary, which its developers warn can break systems starting the X Window system using startx or xinit. Alternatively, simply use a display manager to start X sessions.<\/p>\n<p>A two-year-old bug is nowhere near a record for X.Org. Back in 2014, IOActive&#8217;s Ilja van Sprundel found a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/12\/10\/x_window_system_bugs\/\">27-year-old bug<\/a> in the X Window server. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1787\/-6625\/following-bottomlines-journey-to-the-hybrid-cloud?td=wptl1787\">Following Bottomline\u2019s journey to the Hybrid Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/10\/25\/x_org_server_vulnerability\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwrite arbitrary files? Load arbitrary code? As setuid root? Sure, why not! 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