[PHP 5.2.5 cURL safe_mode bypass ] Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz Date: - - Written: 21.08.2007 - - Public: 22.01.2008 CVE: CVE-2007-4850 Risk: Medium Affected Software: PHP 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 Vendor: http://www.php.net - --- 0.Description --- PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. PHP supports libcurl, a library created by Daniel Stenberg, that allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. libcurl currently supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be done with PHP's ftp extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, and user+password authentication. These functions have been added in PHP 4.0.2. - --- 1. cURL --- This is very similar to CVE-2006-2563. http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2006050153 The first issue [SAFE_MODE bypass] var_dump(curl_exec(curl_init("file://safe_mode_bypass\x00".__FILE__))); is caused by error in curl/interface.c - --- #define PHP_CURL_CHECK_OPEN_BASEDIR(str, len, __ret) \ if (((PG(open_basedir) && *PG(open_basedir)) || PG(safe_mode)) && \ strncasecmp(str, "file:", sizeof("file:") - 1) == 0) \ { \ php_url *tmp_url; \ \ if (!(tmp_url = php_url_parse_ex(str, len))) { \ php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Invalid URL '%s'", str); \ php_curl_ret(__ret); \ } \ \ if (!php_memnstr(str, tmp_url->path, strlen(tmp_url->path), str + len)) { \ php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "URL '%s' contains unencoded control characters", str); \ php_url_free(tmp_url); \ php_curl_ret(__ret); \ } \ \ if (tmp_url->query || tmp_url->fragment || php_check_open_basedir(tmp_url->path TSRMLS_CC) || \ (PG(safe_mode) && !php_checkuid(tmp_url->path, "rb+", CHECKUID_CHECK_MODE_PARAM)) \ ) { \ php_url_free(tmp_url); \ php_curl_ret(__ret); \ } \ php_url_free(tmp_url); \ } - --- if you have tmp_url = php_url_parse_ex(str, len) where: str = "file://safe_mode_bypass\x00".__FILE__ and this function will return: tmp_url->path = __FILE__ curl_init() functions checks safemode and openbasedir for tmp_url->path. Not for real path. - --- if (argc > 0) { char *urlcopy; urlcopy = estrndup(Z_STRVAL_PP(url), Z_STRLEN_PP(url)); curl_easy_setopt(ch->cp, CURLOPT_URL, urlcopy); zend_llist_add_element(&ch->to_free.str, &urlcopy); } - --- the last step in curl_init() function will only copy file://safe_mode_bypass to urlcopy. The main problem exists in php_url_parse_ex() function. If you put in curl_init() "file://host/somewhere/path.php", php_url_parse_ex() will select /somewhere/path.php to path varible. Looks good but it cannot be used, when you will check real path. Using file:///etc/passwd is correct but between file:// and /etc/passwd, php_url_parse_ex() will select host and return path to /passwd. Tested in PHP 5.2.4 and PHP 5.2.5 (FreeBSD 6.2R) cxib# php -v PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Dec 10 2007 19:54:41) (DEBUG) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies - --- 2. Exploit --- N/A - --- 3. How to fix --- CVS http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/NEWS?revision=1.2027.2.547.2.1047&view=markup - --- Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. - --- - --- 4. Contact --- Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz