Suricata < 4.0.4 - IDS Detection Bypass
----------------------------------------------------- Vulnerability Type: Detection Bypass Affected Product: Suricata Vulnerable version: <4.0.4 CVE number: CVE-2018-6794 Found: 25.01.2018 By: Kirill Shipulin (@kirill_wow), Positive Technologies Severity: Medium ------------------------------------------ About Suricata: --------------- Suricata is a high performance Network Threat Detection, IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF, its supporting vendors and the community Attack Description: ------------------- If as a server side you break a normal TCP 3 way handshake packets order and inject some response data before 3whs is complete then data still will be received by the a client but some IDS engines may skip content checks on that. Attack scenario TCP flow scheme: Client -> [SYN] [Seq=0 Ack= 0] -> Evil Server Client <- [SYN, ACK] [Seq=0 Ack= 1] <- Evil Server Client <- [PSH, ACK] [Seq=1 Ack= 1] <- Evil Server # Injection before the 3whs is completed Client <- [FIN, ACK] [Seq=83 Ack= 1] <- Evil Server Client -> [ACK] [Seq=1 Ack= 84] -> Evil Server Client -> [PSH, ACK] [Seq=1 Ack= 84] -> Evil Server IDS signature checks for tcp stream or http response body will be skipped in the case of data injection. This attack technique requires all three packets from a malicious server to be received by a client side together before it completes 3whs. Proof of concept server was written in C to reproduce this and it works reliably in local networks. Since some network devices may affect packets transmission exploitation is not so reliable for the internet scenario. This attack possibly may impact other network monitoring or intrusion detection systems because is not limited to Suricata IDS: an old Snort IDS version 2.9.4 is also affected. Successful exploitation leads to a complete TCP-Stream response or HTTP response signatures bypass and may be used to prevent malicious payloads from network detection. PoС: ---- A Working PoC server is available here: https://github.com/kirillwow/ids_bypass There is also a traffic capture of this data injection technique. Timeline Summary: ----------------- 2018-01-25: Issue submitted to the bug tracker. 2018-01-30: Patch ready. 2018-02-14: Suricata 4.0.4 containing the fix has been released. References: ----------- CVE-2018-6794 https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2427 Contacts: --------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AttackDetection Twitter: https://twitter.com/kirill_wow Telegram: https://t.me/kirill_wow Proof of Concept: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/44247.zip |