Software: Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager
Affected Versions: <= 2020.1.1
Vendor page: www.ivanti.com
CVE Reference: CVE-2020-13770
Published: 11/11/2020
CVSS 3.1 Score: 8.8 – AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector: Local
Credits: Andrei Constantin Scutariu, Lenk Ratchakrit, Calvin Yau
Summary
Several services are accessing named pipes with default or overly permissive security attributes; as these services run as user ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’, the issue can be used to escalate privileges from a local standard or service account having SeImpersonatePrivilege (eg. user ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE’).
Mitigation
There is currently no fix for this issue. The vendor has yet to release a patch to address the vulnerability; it is advised to review the host configuration and monitor for suspicious activity.
Technical details
The process of exploiting the vulnerability consists in creating a named pipe server, waiting for the vulnerable service to connect to it as a client, extract the client’s token and use it to perform privileged actions as ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’. As there can only be one server-side named pipe object, to exploit the vulnerability it might be required to create the named pipe object before the legitimate process does, or alternatively kill it or cause it to crash.
The following named pipe client processes and named pipe objects are affected on version <=2020.1.1:
Pipe name: \\.\pipe\SQLLocal\ldmsdata
Server process: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.LDMSDATA\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe
Client processes:
- C:\PROGRA~1\LANDesk\MANAGE~1\landesk\SAM\SamServer\bin\SAM.O365PS_Routines.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\LDClient\LDdevmon.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\AlertService.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\BrokerService.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ManagedPlanet.Core.Barcode.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\SchedQry.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\MDMManagementService.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\commands.service.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\CoreSyncService.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ManagedPlanet.RapidDeploy.Service.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\MPCore.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\LDInv32.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\SchedSvc.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ManagedPlanet.Common.DBMonitorService.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ManagedPlanet.Common.SoftwareManager.exe
- C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ManagedPlanet.DiscoveryServices.Core.exe
Timeline
28/05/2020: Issue reported to the vendor
01/06/2020: Vendor acknowledged the issues
02/06/2020: CVE number assigned from MITRE
13/07/2020: 90 days notice period for disclosure given to the vendor
11/11/2020: Advisory published by JUMPSEC
