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Arrow  Topic : PHP 5.2.5 cURL safe_mode bypass
Arrow  SecurityAlert : 51
  CVE : CVE-2007-4850
Arrow  SecurityRisk : Medium  Security Risk Medium  (About)
Arrow  Remote Exploit : No
Arrow  Local Exploit : Yes
Arrow  Exploit Given : No
Arrow  Credit : Maksymilian Arciemowicz
Arrow  Date : 22.01.2008

Arrow  Affected Software : PHP 5.2.5 and 5.2.4

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Arrow  Advisory Text :  

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[PHP 5.2.5 cURL safe_mode bypass ]

Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz (cXIb8O3)
SecurityReason
Date:
- - Written: 21.08.2007
- - Public: 22.01.2008

SecurityReason Research
SecurityAlert Id: 51

CVE: CVE-2007-4850
SecurityRisk: Medium

Affected Software: PHP 5.2.4 and 5.2.5
Advisory URL:
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/51
Vendor: http://www.php.net

- --- 0.Description ---

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed
from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown
in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write
dynamically generated pages quickly.

PHP supports libcurl, a library created by Daniel Stenberg, that allows you
to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many
different types of protocols. libcurl currently supports the http, https,
ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols. libcurl also supports
HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be
done with PHP's ftp extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,
and user+password authentication.

These functions have been added in PHP 4.0.2.

- --- 1. cURL ---
This is very similar to CVE-2006-2563.

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/39


The first issue [SAFE_MODE bypass]

var_dump(curl_exec(curl_init("file://safe_mode_bypass\x00".__FILE__)));

is caused by error in curl/interface.c

- ---
#define PHP_CURL_CHECK_OPEN_BASEDIR(str, len, __ret) \
if (((PG(open_basedir) && *PG(open_basedir)) || PG(safe_mode)) &&
\
strncasecmp(str, "file:", sizeof("file:") - 1) == 0) \
{ \
php_url *tmp_url; \
\
if (!(tmp_url = php_url_parse_ex(str, len))) { \
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Invalid URL '%s'",
str); \
php_curl_ret(__ret); \
} \
\
if (!php_memnstr(str, tmp_url->path, strlen(tmp_url->path), str + len))
{ \
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "URL '%s' contains unencoded
control characters", str); \
php_url_free(tmp_url); \
php_curl_ret(__ret); \
} \
\
if (tmp_url->query || tmp_url->fragment ||
php_check_open_basedir(tmp_url->path TSRMLS_CC) || \
(PG(safe_mode) && !php_checkuid(tmp_url->path, "rb+",
CHECKUID_CHECK_MODE_PARAM)) \
) { \
php_url_free(tmp_url); \
php_curl_ret(__ret); \
} \
php_url_free(tmp_url); \
}
- ---

if you have tmp_url = php_url_parse_ex(str, len)
where:

str = "file://safe_mode_bypass\x00".__FILE__

and this function will return:

tmp_url->path = __FILE__

curl_init() functions checks safemode and openbasedir for tmp_url->path.
Not for real path.

- ---
if (argc > 0) {
char *urlcopy;

urlcopy = estrndup(Z_STRVAL_PP(url), Z_STRLEN_PP(url));
curl_easy_setopt(ch->cp, CURLOPT_URL, urlcopy);
zend_llist_add_element(&ch->to_free.str, &urlcopy);
}
- ---

the last step in curl_init() function will only copy
file://safe_mode_bypass to urlcopy.

The main problem exists in php_url_parse_ex() function. If you put in
curl_init() "file://host/somewhere/path.php", php_url_parse_ex() will
select /somewhere/path.php to path varible. Looks good but it cannot be
used, when you will check real path. Using file:///etc/passwd is correct
but between file:// and /etc/passwd, php_url_parse_ex() will select host
and return path to /passwd.

Tested in PHP 5.2.4 and PHP 5.2.5 (FreeBSD 6.2R)

cxib# php -v
PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Dec 10 2007 19:54:41)
(DEBUG)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

- --- 2. Exploit ---
SecurityReason will not public official exploit for this issue. But it is
possible to read file from another directories like /etc/passwd.

- --- 3. How to fix ---
CVS

http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/NEWS?revision=1.2027.2.547.2.1047&vi
ew=markup

- ---
Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
- ---

- --- 4. Greets ---
sp3x, Infospec, p_e_a, schain, l5x and iliaa

- --- 5. Contact ---

Author: SecurityReason [ Maksymilian Arciemowicz ( cXIb8O3 ) ]
Email: cxib [at] securityreason [dot] com
GPG: http://securityreason.pl/key/Arciemowicz.Maksymilian.gpg [NEW KEY]
GPG: http://securityreason.pl/key/Arciemowicz.Maksymilian.gpg.old [OLD
KEY]
http://securityreason.com
http://securityreason.pl

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