Executive Summary

Summary
Title MW6 Technologies ActiveX controls contain multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name VU#219470 First vendor Publication 2014-01-20
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2014-01-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#219470

MW6 Technologies ActiveX controls contain multiple vulnerabilities

Original Release date: 20 Jan 2014 | Last revised: 20 Jan 2014

Overview

MW6 Technologies' MaxiCode, Aztec, and DataMatrix ActiveX controls contain multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

MW6 Technologies' MaxiCode, Aztec, and DataMatrix ActiveX controls are used for processing barcodes. The ActiveX controls contain multiple vulnerabilities that may lead to remote code execution.

Impact

By convincing a user to view a specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a web page, an HTML email message, or an HTML email attachment), an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. The attacker could also cause the web browser to crash.

Solution

We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. Please consider the following workarounds.

Disable the ActiveX control in Internet Explorer

The vulnerable ActiveX controls can be disabled in Internet Explorer by setting the kill bit for the following CLSIDs:

  • {2355C601-37D1-42B4-BEB1-03C773298DC8}
  • {F359732D-D020-40ED-83FF-F381EFE36B54}
  • {DE7DA0B5-7D7B-4CEA-8739-65CF600D511E}

More information about how to set the kill bit is available in Microsoft Support Document 240797.

Disable ActiveX

Disabling ActiveX controls in the Internet Zone (or any zone used by an attacker) appears to prevent exploitation of this and other ActiveX vulnerabilities. Instructions for disabling ActiveX in the Internet Zone can be found in the Securing Your Web Browser document.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
MW6 TechnologiesAffected14 Nov 201305 Dec 2013
If you are a vendor and your product is affected, let us know.

CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

GroupScoreVector
Base9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal7.6E:POC/RL:W/RC:UR
Environmental5.7CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

  • http://www.mw6tech.com/
  • http://www.mw6tech.com/aztec/aztec.html
  • http://www.mw6tech.com/maxicode/maxicode.html
  • http://www.mw6tech.com/datamatrix/datamatrix.html

Credit

Thanks to Pedro Ribeiro, pedrib@gmail.com, for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jared Allar.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs:CVE-2013-6040
  • Date Public:20 Dec 2013
  • Date First Published:20 Jan 2014
  • Date Last Updated:20 Jan 2014
  • Document Revision:14

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Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/219470

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-03-14 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 36654 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2016-03-14 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 36653 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30053 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30052 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30051 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30050 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30049 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-04-05 MW6 Technologies Aztec ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 30048 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-01-28 Name : The remote Windows host has one or more ActiveX controls installed that are a...
File : mw6_activex_vu219470.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:07:36
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-22 21:24:19
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2014-01-21 13:23:08
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-21 00:18:05
  • First insertion