Check Point Advisories

HP LoadRunner Virtual User Generator EmulationAdmin Directory Traversal (CVE-2013-4837)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0891
Date Published: 5 Feb 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 02 March, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-4837
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities exist in HP LoadRunner. These vulnerabilities are due to a lack of input validation on SOAP requests, specifically, the copyFileToServer and the getFileContentAsLines operations of the EmulationAdmin web service. Unauthenticated remote attackers could exploit the vulnerability in the copyFileToServer by uploading and accessing a specially crafted JSP or any other executable files. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability in getFileContentAsLines function to read arbitrary files on the server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the HP LoadRunner Virtual User Generator EmulationAdmin Directory Traversal protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  HP Products Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  HP LoadRunner Virtual User Generator EmulationAdmin Directory Traversal

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