ESA-2016-121: EMC Unisphere for VMAX and Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliances Multiple Vulnerabilities

EMC Product Security Response Center <Security_Alert@xxxxxxx> · Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:49:30 +0000

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ESA-2016-121: EMC Unisphere for VMAX and Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliances Multiple Vulnerabilities

EMC Identifier: ESA-2016-121
CVE Identifier: CVE-2016-6645, CVE-2016-6646
Severity Rating: CVSS v3 Base Score: See below for individual CVEs.

Affected products:  
?	EMC Unisphere for VMAX Virtual Appliance versions 8.0.x - 8.2.x
?	EMC Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance versions 8.0.x - 8.2.x

Summary:  
The vApp Manager which is embedded in EMC Unisphere for VMAX and Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliances contains fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. 

Details:  
?	Unauthenticated Command Execution (CVE-2016-6646)
The vApp Managers web application is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vApp Manager runs on port 5480 and has a Flash based user interface that uses the AMF protocol to communicate with the server. There are 2 classes, GetSymmCmdRequest and RemoteServiceHandler, that perform no input validation and require no authentication and may be leveraged by an attacker to run arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

?	Authenticated Command Execution (CVE-2016-6645)
The vApp Managers web application is vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vApp Manager runs on port 5480 and has a Flash based user interface that uses the AMF protocol to communicate with the server. There are 3 classes, GeneralCmdRequest, PersistantDataRequest and GetCommandExecRequest, that perform no input validation and may be leveraged by an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Resolution:  
The following products contain the resolution to these vulnerabilities:
?	EMC Unisphere for VMAX Virtual Appliance version 8.3.0
?	EMC Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance version 8.3.0

EMC recommends all affected customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity. 

Link to remedies:
Customers can download the software from: 
?	https://support.emc.com/downloads/27045_Unisphere-for-VMAX
?	https://support.emc.com/downloads/2071_Solutions-Enabler

Credit:
EMC would like to thank the following individuals for reporting these vulnerabilities:
?	Travis Emmert from Salesforce (CVE-2016-6646)
?	Michael Cramer from Digital Defense Inc. (CVE-2016-6645, CVE-2016-6646)

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