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Silver vulnerable to MitM attack against implants due to a cryptography vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 20, 2023 in BishopFox/sliver • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/bishopfox/sliver (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.40

Patched versions

1.5.40

Description

Summary

The current cryptography implementation in Sliver up to version 1.5.39 allows a MitM with access to the corresponding implant binary to execute arbitrary codes on implanted devices via intercepted and crafted responses. (Reserved CVE ID: CVE-2023-34758)

Details

Please see the PoC repo.

PoC

Please also see the PoC repo.
To setup a simple PoC environment,

  1. Generate an implant with its C2 set to the PoC server's address and copy the embedded private implant key and public server key into the config json.
  2. Run the implant on a separate VM and a notepad.exe window should pop up on the implanted VM.

Impact

A successful attack grants the attacker permission to execute arbitrary code on the implanted device.

References

https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/blob/master/implant/sliver/cryptography/implant.go
https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/blob/master/implant/sliver/cryptography/crypto.go
https://github.com/tangent65536/Slivjacker

Credits

Ting-Wei Hsieh from CHT Security Co. Ltd.

References

@moloch-- moloch-- published to BishopFox/sliver Jun 20, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 21, 2023
Reviewed Jun 21, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 26, 2023
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

High
8.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-34758

GHSA ID

GHSA-8jxm-xp43-qh3q

Source code

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