Security Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Azure OMI agents problems
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Situation
Security researchers found that Microsoft Azure injects a specific health monitoring package "OMI agent" into public cloud Linux instances when certain other Azure services are enabled for a given instance.
The services known to trigger the injection of the vulnerable package are as follows:
- Azure Automation
- Azure Automatic Update
- Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- Azure Log Analytics
- Azure Configuration Management
- Azure Diagnostics
The deployed code has several easy to exploit remote vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2021-38647: Unauthenticated RCE as root (Severity: 9.8)
- CVE-2021-38648: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)
- CVE-2021-38645: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)
- CVE-2021-38649: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.0)
The services known to trigger the injection of the vulnerable package are as follows:
- Azure Automation
- Azure Automatic Update
- Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- Azure Log Analytics
- Azure Configuration Management
- Azure Diagnostics
The deployed code has several easy to exploit remote vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2021-38647: Unauthenticated RCE as root (Severity: 9.8)
- CVE-2021-38648: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)
- CVE-2021-38645: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)
- CVE-2021-38649: Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.0)
Resolution
To see if your instance is using the code in question, use:
rpm -qa omi
As the package is maintained and injected by Microsoft into Azure instances, and is not delivered by SUSE, SUSE can not provide fixes.
Solution:
See https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38647
Steps:
- Verify your network settings and ensure ports 5985, 5986, 1270 are not
exposed to the Internet. If these ports are exposed to the Internet it is
recommended to consider your system as compromised.
- Redeploy your instance using a network construct with ports 5985, 5986,
1270
closed to the Internet.
If this is not feasible:
- follow the install steps for SUSE on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/Linux-Package-Repository-for-Microsoft-Software,
short version:
- SLE12: sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/12/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
- SLE15: sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/15/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
- run "zypper up" to update the omi agents from the newly added repo.
rpm -qa omi
As the package is maintained and injected by Microsoft into Azure instances, and is not delivered by SUSE, SUSE can not provide fixes.
Solution:
See https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38647
Steps:
- Verify your network settings and ensure ports 5985, 5986, 1270 are not
exposed to the Internet. If these ports are exposed to the Internet it is
recommended to consider your system as compromised.
- Redeploy your instance using a network construct with ports 5985, 5986,
1270
closed to the Internet.
If this is not feasible:
- follow the install steps for SUSE on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/Linux-Package-Repository-for-Microsoft-Software,
short version:
- SLE12: sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/12/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
- SLE15: sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/15/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
- run "zypper up" to update the omi agents from the newly added repo.
Status
Security Alert
Additional Information
References:
https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38647
https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38647
Disclaimer
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- Document ID:000020388
- Creation Date: 16-Sep-2021
- Modified Date:16-Sep-2021
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