CVE-2019-5021: Hard-Coded NULL root Password Found in Alpine Linux Docker Images
A Hard-Coded NULL root user password vulnerability was found in Alpine Linux Docker Images from December 2015’s 3.3 version onward. Users are encouraged to disable the root user, or any services that utilize the system shadow file as an authentication database.
Hintergrund
In November 2015, a bug in Alpine Linux Docker Images was patched to prevent the /etc/shadow file from accepting a NULL password for the root user. However, eight days later, an update was pushed to the Alpine Linux project that accidentally removed this fix. Since that time, all versions of Alpine Linux from 3.3 to 3.9 have accepted a NULL password for the root user if services like Linux PAM are running on the system, due to the usage of /etc/shadow as an authentication database.
Analyse
On May 8 2019, Cisco Talos published a disclosure for this vulnerability after reporting its findings to the Alpine Linux team. The root account is enabled by default and, unless the account is explicitly locked, affected versions will treat the root account as having a blank password.
Lösung
Upgrading to the latest supported versions of Alpine Docker (3.6.5, 3.7.3, 3.8.4, 3.9.3, and edge) will fix this vulnerability.
Users are encouraged to completely disable the root account on all affected versions of Alpine Linux Docker images, if upgrading is not an option for you at this time. However, if your Alpine Linux assets aren’t using a service that treats the /etc/shadow file as a password database, this vulnerability is not exploitable even if the root account is enabled.
Identifizieren betroffener Systeme
For Tenable customers, due to the age and nature of this vulnerability, the Unpassworded 'root' Account plugin will flag any exploitable hosts without any updates or changes to the plugin. As always, we encourage customers to include the Default Unix Accounts family in their scans for configurations that contain blank or default passwords.
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