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Status New
Categories Security
Created by Slawomir Borzymowski
Created on Oct 14, 2024

Eliminate Natural vulnerability for impersonation

Natural can be easily cheated by the tool called fakeroot.

It can be used to change environment variable UID, which is read by Natural to set *INIT-USER variable. Natural gets UID different from user that is logged in linux and If AUTO=ON is also set, one can impersonate any user known to NSC.

The idea is that Natural should get User ID from other source than UID. Just like mail application does - even after changing UID it stil knows the original user logged to linux.

This is very important security issue.