SNS Vulnerability

Zabbix Two SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Zabbix, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "periods" and "itemid" GET parameter to chart_bar.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.8.22, 2.0.14, and 2.2.8.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Zabbix 1.xZabbix 2.x

Solution

Update to version 1.8.22, 2.0.14, or 2.2.8.

CVE

CVE-2014-9450

References

Zabbix:
http://www.zabbix.com/rn1.8.22.php
http://www.zabbix.com/rn2.0.14.php
http://www.zabbix.com/rn2.2.8.php
Leann:
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-8582

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Authentication bypass attempt with OR statement	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2014-12-18

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote