Re: ISA Server 2004 Log Manipulation

[Shaun Colley <shaun () ngssoftware com>]

Hey,

>I'm curious about why you regard this as security-relevant. I do not
>know what you mean by "log manipulation".

One possible attack vector would be to inject terminal emulator escape 
sequences into the log file to leverage attacks against vulnerable 
terminal emulator software.  Let's say an admin has SSH'd into his ISA 
server remotely, and is using a terminal emulator program like eterm or 
rxvt.  He may then 'more' or 'type' the log file to stdout, causing his 
terminal emulator to interpret and act upon the escape sequences found.  
The results of this could be pretty nasty, depending on the term 
emulator being used, including arbitrary file creation and worse.  H. D. 
Moore wrote a nice summary about some issues in popular terminal 
emulator software a while ago.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/att-0093/01-Termulation.txt

Obviously, these possibilities are not directly attributable to ISA 
server itself, but to the terminal emulator programs.  However, I 
suppose many people would expect log files to be trusted and safe, so 
this could just provide a possible means for leveraging attacks against 
already known bugs.

Cheers,
Shaun