Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG

Advisory ID CVE Number Date discovered Severity Advisory revision
STORM-2018-005 CVE-2018-3615 , CVE-2018-3620 , CVE-2018-3646 08/14/2018 low v1

Vulnerability details

Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG are two novel variants of the Meltdown attack that exploit critical vulnerabilities in Intel processors. These attacks – also referred to as “L1 Terminal Fault” attacks – allow an attacker with a local access to leak sensitive informtion residing in the operating system’s kernel, in the hypervisor, in the System Management Mode or in SGX-protected memory. An attacker running a malicious virtual machine can also infer secret data residing on co-hosted guest virtual machines.

Impacted products

ProductsSeverityDetail
Stormshield Network Security low SNS uses a vulnerable version of processor
Fast360 low FAST uses a vulnerable version of processor

Revisions

Version Date Description
v1 Initial release

 



Stormshield Network Security

CVSS v2 Overall Score: 3.2      

Analysis

Impacted version

The exploitation of the vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 (Foreshadow-NG) could allow a local attacker (ability to run on SNS his own code or script) to the appliance to leak sensitive information.

Those vulnerabilities are useless for an attacker who already have administrator access because an administrator has the highest privileges on the appliance.

It also means that those vulnerabilities aren’t useful for an external attacker to get local access to an SNS appliance.

SNS appliances are not vulnerable to the CVE-2018-3615 (Foreshadow). SGX is not enabled on the SNS appliances.

Concerning virtual appliances or administration tools like Stormshield Visibility Center or Stormshield Management Center you should ensure your hypervisor is up-to-date.

  • SN910
  • SN2000
  • SN3000
  • SN6000
  • NG1000
  • NG5000

Workaround solution

Solution

Keep your appliances updated in order to limit the exploitation of other vulnerabilities that could let an attacker exploit the L1TF vulnerabilities in order to get higher privileges.

As stated in the analysis, the Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG vulnerabilities require a local access to the appliance. The only user being able to run code on the appliance is the administrator who already has the highest privileges. Consequently, SNS users are not put at risk and no fix needs to be applied.



Access vector Access complexity Authentication Confidentiality impact Integrity impact Availability impact
Local Medium None Complete None None
CVSS Base score: 4.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Remediation Level Report Confidence
Proof of concept code Unavailable Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 4.2 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:U/RC:C)
Collateral Damage Potential Target Distribution
None Medium [26-75%]
CVSS Environmental score: 3.2 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:U/RC:C/CDP:N/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND)


Fast360

CVSS v2 Overall Score: 3.2      

Analysis

Impacted version

These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with a local access to the appliance to leak sensitive information.

Those vulnerabilities are useless for an attacker who already have administrator access because an administrator has the highest privileges on the appliance.
It means that those vulnerabilities are only useful for an attacker exploiting another old vulnerability on the appliance.

Consequently, it is highly recommended to keep your appliances updated.

  • P80XL
  • P150XL
  • P250XL
  • PSX3

Workaround solution

Solution

Keep your appliances updated in order to limit the exploitation of other vulnerabilities that could let an attacker exploit the L1TF vulnerabilities in order to get higher privileges.

As stated in the analysis, the L1TF vulnerabilities require a local access to the appliance. The only user being able to run code on the appliance is the administrator who already has the highest privileges. Consequently, Fast users are not put at risk and no fix needs to be applied.



Access vector Access complexity Authentication Confidentiality impact Integrity impact Availability impact
Local Medium None Complete None None
CVSS Base score: 4.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Remediation Level Report Confidence
Proof of concept code Unavailable Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 4.2 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:U/RC:C)
Collateral Damage Potential Target Distribution
None Medium [26-75%]
CVSS Environmental score: 3.2 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:U/RC:C/CDP:N/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND)