Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Vulnerabilities Addressed

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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor (Uptime IM) Vulnerabilities Addressed

CERT Coordination Center (cert.org) published their latest Uptime Infrastructure Monitor vulnerability report on Dec 8 2015: www.kb.cert.org/…/377260
Uptime IM worked closely with CERT during their testing process to ensure we addressed these issues quickly.
We take security very seriously and very much appreciate CERT’s responsible disclosure of the known vulnerabilities and their on-going efforts in working with us.

Three vulnerabilities were found:
CWE-134: Uncontrolled Format String – CVE-2015-2894
For version 6.0 and 7.2, an unauthenticated attacker on the network may send either the “%n” or “%s” format parameters will cause the application to crash.

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (‘Classic Buffer Overflow’) – CVE-2015-2895
For version 7.4, an unauthenticated attacker on the network sending commands with an input that is larger than 1024 bytes will crash the application. Remote code execution is likely but currently unproven.

CWE-200: Information Exposure – CVE-2015-2896
For versions 7.6 and prior, an unauthenticated attacker on the network may send built-in commands to the port that the Uptime agent is using. These commands are not authenticated, and therefore the attacker can learn information such as the version of Uptime running, details about the underlying operating system running Uptime, details about other running processes on the system, and Windows operating system event log information.

We have released Uptime version 7.6 which addresses CVE-2015-2894 and CVE-2015-2895. Affected users are encouraged to update as soon as possible.
The remaining issue, CVE-2015-2896, will be fully addressed in a future release but may be mitigated with the following actions:

Check configuration

Affected users may also use the following configuration settings to mitigate these issues:
1. All agents run in a read only mode by default, where they can only poll metrics.
2. In order to use custom scripts or trigger recovery actions, you need to set a password on the agent, or add commands to the .uptmpasswd file for the Linux agent.
3. Agents communication can be encrypted with SSL by using various SSL Tunneling/Proxy Utilities (openSSL, etc). KB articles cover the specifics for implementing with Stunnel on various platforms.
4. Agents running under xinet.d can also be secured at the service level by restricting incoming connections to only accept connections from the Monitoring Station, or limit the total number of connections, etc.
5. Disable Agent Commands you don’t use either via the Agent Console or editing conf/agent_commands.txt.

Any vulnerability found in the future should be reported to us quickly. We will work with the reporter to promptly address the issue.
If you have any questions or need to report Uptime IM security or vulnerability issue please send us an email to: support@uptimesoftware.com.