Omnis Studio 10.22.00 Library Unlock

Advisory ID: SYSS-2023-006
Product: Omnis Studio
Manufacturer: Omnis Software Ltd.
Affected Version(s): 10.22.00
Tested Version(s): 10.22.00
Vulnerability Type: Expected Behavior Violation (CWE-440)
Risk Level: Low
Solution Status: Open
Manufacturer Notification: 2023-03-30
Solution Date: -
Public Disclosure: 2023-07-20
CVE Reference: CVE-2023-38334
Author of Advisory: Matthias Deeg (SySS GmbH)

Overview:

Omnis Studio is a rapid application development tool for developing  
cross-platform software applications.

The manufacturer describes the product as follows:

"Omnis Studio is a powerful development environment that lets you deploy  
apps to virtually any device, on any platform, including tablets,  
smartphones, and desktop computers."[1]

Due to implementation issues, locked classes in Omnis libraries can be  
unlocked and thus further analyzed and modified via the Omnis Studio  
browser.

Vulnerability Details:

Omnis Studio supports an irreversible feature for locking classes within
Omnis libraries.

According to the Omnis Studio software, it should be no longer possible
to delete, view, change, copy, rename, duplicate, or print a locked
class.

However, during a security analysis of an application developed with
Omnis Studio using this feature, Matthias Deeg found out that it is
possible to unlock previously locked classes of Omnis libraries, for
instance by simply bypassing specific checks in Omnis Studio.

This allows for further analyzing and also deleting, viewing, changing,
copying, renaming, duplicating, or printing previously locked Omnis
classes.

This violates the expected behavior of an "irreversible operation".

Proof of Concept (PoC):

For demonstrating the described security issue, Matthias Deeg developed  
a proof-of-concept software tool which allows unlocking locked classes  
within Omnis libraries and further analyzing and modifying them within  
Omnis Studio.

 >OmnisUnlocker.exe

 _____________________________________________________________  
                /    _____       _____ _____   
      \  
               /    /  ___|     /  ___/  ___|   
       \  
              |     \ `--. _   _\ `--.\ `--.   
        |  
              |      `--. \ | | |`--. \`--. \   
        |  
              |     /\__/ / |_| /\__/ /\__/ /   
        |  
               \    \____/ \__, \____/\____/   ... unlocks Omnis Studio!   
       /  
                \          __/ |   
      /  
                /         |___/   
__________________________________________/  
               / _________________/  
         (__) /_/  
         (oo)  
   /------\/  
  / |____||  
*  ||   ||  
    ^^   ^^  
SySS Omnis Unlocker v1.0 by Matthias Deeg <[email protected]> - (c) 2023

[+] The Omnis Studio process was patched successfully.  
     Now you can:  
         * load private Omnis libraries in the browser, and  
         * analyze locked classes.

Solution:

SySS GmbH is not aware of a solution for the described security issue.

Disclosure Timeline:

2023-03-30: Vulnerability reported to manufacturer  
2023-04-06: Vulnerability reported to manufacturer again  
2023-07-20: Public release of security advisory

References:

[1] Product website for Omnis Studio
https://www.omnis.net/
[2] SySS Security Advisory SYSS-2023-006

https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2023-006.txt
[3] SySS GmbH, SySS Responsible Disclosure Policy
https://www.syss.de/en/responsible-disclosure-policy

Credits:

This security vulnerability was found by Matthias Deeg of SySS GmbH.

E-Mail: matthias.deeg (at) syss.de  
Public Key:   
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/PGPKeys/Matthias_Deeg.asc  
Key Fingerprint = D1F0 A035 F06C E675 CDB9 0514 D9A4 BF6A 34AD 4DAB

Disclaimer:

The information provided in this security advisory is provided “as is”
and without warranty of any kind. Details of this security advisory may
be updated in order to provide as accurate information as possible. The
latest version of this security advisory is available on the SySS website.

Copyright:

Creative Commons - Attribution (by) - Version 3.0  
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