INFORMATION BULLETIN

S-316: HP Online Support Services ActiveX StartApp() Vulnerability

[US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#998779]

June 12, 2008 15:00 GMT


PROBLEM:	The HP Online Support Services ActiveX control contains a method called StartApp(). This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute local files on a vulnerable system in the context of the local user.
PLATFORM:	HP Online Support
DAMAGE:	Execute local files.
SOLUTION:	Upgrade to the appropriate version.

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT:	The risk is LOW. A remote, unathenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system in the context of the local user.

CVSS 2 BASE SCORE: TEMPORAL SCORE: VECTOR:	5.1 4.0 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)

LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN:	http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-316.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN:	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/998779
ADDITIONAL LINKS:	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/857539 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/949587 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/190939 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/221123 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/526131 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/558163 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/754403
CVE:	CVE-2007-5604 CVE-2007-5605 CVE-2007-5606 CVE-2007-5607 CVE-2007-5608 CVE-2007-5610 CVE-2008-0952 CVE-2008-0953

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Vulnerability Note VU#998779

HP Online Support Services ActiveX StartApp() arbitrary code execution

Overview

The HP Online Support Services ActiveX control contains a method called StartApp(). This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute local files on a vulnerable system in the context of the local user.

I. Description

HP Services provides online product support services including HP Instant Support. The HPISDataManager.dll ActiveX control contains the insecure function StartApp(), which can be exploited by a malicious attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Note that the HP Support Services ActiveX control is locked to certain domains, such as hp.com. This means that an attacker would have to subvert the host name lookup methodology on a victim's system or exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability in one of the allowed domains to exploit this vulnerability.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system in the context of the local user.

III. Solution

HP suggests to install HP Instant Support - v1.0.0.24 or later. For installation instructions, please visit the HP Support Document. However, limited testing has shown that this update does not change the behavior with respect to unsafe methods.

From the HP Support Document:

The vulnerabilities can also be resolved by the following procedure:

Set the kill bit for the vulnerable ActiveX control's Class identifier (CLSID) {14C1B87C-3342-445F-9B5E-365FF330A3AC} . The kill bit is set by modifying the data value of the Compatibility Flags DWORD value for the CLSID of this ActiveX control to 0x00000400. This is explained in Microsoft's article KB240797 or subsequent. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Updated
Hewlett-Packard Company	Unknown	11-Apr-2008
Hewlett-Packard Company	Vulnerable	6-Jun-2008

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01422264
http://www.csis.dk/dk/forside/CSIS-RI-0003.pdf

Credit

Hewlett-Packard credits Dennis Rand of CSIS Security Research and Intelligence for discovering this vulnerability.

This document was written by Joseph Pruszynski and Will Dormann

Other Information

Date Public	06/04/2008
Date First Published	06/06/2008 02:22:26 PM
Date Last Updated	06/07/2008
CERT Advisory
CVE Name	CVE-2007-5604; CVE-2007-5605; CVE-2007-5606; CVE-2007-5607; CVE-2007-5608; CVE-2007-5610; CVE-2008-0952; CVE-2008-0953
US-CERT Technical Alerts
Metric	7.61
Document Revision	26

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