Subject: Prevent some forms of Cross Protocol Scripting attacks Author: Andreas Fritiofson Origin: other, http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/4335/ Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/887488 Last-Update: 2018-01-18 From 3a223ca3ebc7ac24d7726a0cd58e5695bc813657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Fritiofson Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:00:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2018-5704: Prevent some forms of Cross Protocol Scripting attacks OpenOCD can be targeted by a Cross Protocol Scripting attack from a web browser running malicious code, such as the following PoC: var x = new XMLHttpRequest(); x.open("POST", "http://127.0.0.1:4444", true); x.send("exec xcalc\r\n"); This mitigation should provide some protection from browser-based attacks and is based on the corresponding fix in Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/8075572207b5aebb1385c4f233f5302544439325/src/networking.c#L1758 Change-Id: Ia96ebe19b74b5805dc228bf7364c7971a90a4581 Signed-off-by: Andreas Fritiofson Reported-by: Josef Gajdusek --- diff --git a/src/server/startup.tcl b/src/server/startup.tcl index 64ace40..dd1b31e 100644 --- a/src/server/startup.tcl +++ b/src/server/startup.tcl @@ -8,3 +8,14 @@ # one target reset halt } + +proc prevent_cps {} { + echo "Possible SECURITY ATTACK detected." + echo "It looks like somebody is sending POST or Host: commands to OpenOCD." + echo "This is likely due to an attacker attempting to use Cross Protocol Scripting" + echo "to compromise your OpenOCD instance. Connection aborted." + exit +} + +proc POST {args} { prevent_cps } +proc Host: {args} { prevent_cps }