Team SHATTER Security Advisory: Elevated roles through DBCC

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AppSecInc Team SHATTER Security Advisory

Elevated roles through DBCC

Risk Level:
High

Affected versions:
Sybase ASE 15.0, 15.5, 15.7

Remote exploitable:
No

Credits:
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Martin Rakhmanov of
Application Security Inc.

Details:
Authenticated users can elevate privileges to any role via SQL injection
in one of the DBCC commands.

Impact:
Authenticated users can elevate privileges to any role.

Vendor Status:
Vendor was contacted and a patch was released.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Sybase ASE 15.0: apply ESD#4.1.
Sybase ASE 15.5: apply ESD#5.1.
Sybase ASE 15.7: apply ESD#1.

Links:
<https://www.teamshatter.com/?p=3903&gt;
<http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1098877&gt;

Timeline:
Vendor Notification - 11/03/2011
Vendor Response - 11/10/2011
Fix - 07/25/2012
Public Disclosure - <10/04/2012>

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