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Awesome InfoSec

Personal notes and awesome infosec stuff for a bash-focused workflow. Highly subjective selection by nature.

Contents

• Orientation
• Bugs
  • Archives: ZipSlip/TarSlip and others
  • CLI Applications
  • Image Libs: Converters, Resizers, etc. pp
  • Font Files
  • Request Smuggling
  • Deserialization
  • SQLi
  • URL Parsers
  • WYSIWYG Editors
  • XSS
  • XSS via data:-Attribute
• Bug Chains
• Language-Level
  • PHP
  • Python
• Secret Scanning
  • Docker

Orientation

• roadmap.sh - Cyber-Security Roadmap.

Bugs

Archives: ZipSlip/TarSlip and others

• CVE-2023-40477 - code execution via crafted .rar in vulnerable WinRAR versions prior to 6.23 PoC (unverified) 2023-08-17.
• CVE-2023-32981 - Arbitrary file write vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin 2.15.2 and earlier using crafted archives as parameters GitHub Security Lab 2023-05-16.
• #1914118 - PR, Video 2023-03-21.
• CVE-2022-3607 - ZipSlip Symlink variant allows to read any file within OctoPrint Box in octoprint/octoprint Fix 2022-08-24.

CLI Applications

• Terminally Owned - 60 Years of Escaping - DEF CON 31 talk by David Leadbeater 2023.
• Weaponizing Plain Text ANSI Escape Sequences as a Forensic Nightmare - DEF CON 31 talk by STÖK 2023.
• Plain Text? Really? - NDC Oslo 2021 talk by Dylan Beattie 2021.

Image Libs: Converters, Resizers, etc. pp

• CVE-2023-34153 - Command injection via video:vsync or video:pixel-format Fix 2023-05-30.
• ImageMagick: The hidden vulnerability behind your online images - 2023-02-01.
• CVE-2022-44268 - Arbitrary File Read over ImageMagick #1858574 alternative.
• ImageMagick - Shell injection via PDF password - 2021-11-21.
• #1154542 - RCE in GitLab when removing metadata with ExifTool Video 2021-04-07.
• CVE-2021-32802 - HEIC image preview can be used to invoke Imagick #1261413 2020-07-14.
• CVE-2019-11932 - Double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to RCE BBRE 2019-10-02.
• CVE-2016-3714 - "ImageTragick" Delegate Arbitrary Command Execution Exploit-DB.

Font Files

• Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem - Canva Dev-blog covering:
  • CVE-2023-45139 - XXE via generating a subset from a font,
  • CVE-2024-25081 - Command-injection via filenames in subfonts,
  • CVE-2024-25082 - Similar to previous one, but in archives of compressed WOFF (ZLIB-based) / WOFF2 (Brotli-based) fonts.

• CVE-2024-4367 - Glyph rendering in Mozilla's PDF.js leads to JavaScript Execution Codean Labs.

Request Smuggling

• #771666 - Stealing Zomato X-Access-Token: in Bulk using HTTP Request Smuggling on api.zomato.com 2020-01-10.
• HTTP Desync Attacks: Smashing into the Cell Next Door - DEF CON 27 Conference talk by James Kettle (@albinowax) of PortSwigger 2019-11-16.
• #737140 - CL.TE-based request smuggling on Slack 2019-11-14.
• HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn - 2019-08-07.

Tools

• defparam/smuggler - An HTTP Request Smuggling / Desync testing tool Python 3.

Deserialization

PHP

• ambionics/phpggc - PHPGGC is a library of PHP unserialize()-payloads along with a tool to generate them, from command line or programmatically.
• Finding a POP chain on a common Symfony bundle - Detailed, step-by-step bash-driven analysis of a Symfony bundle Part 2 2023-09-12.
• Code Reuse Attacks in PHP: Automated POP Chain Generation - Using static analytics to automatically identify POP chains in various PHP frameworks.

Python

• Insecure Deserialization Detection in Python - Project work by Aneesh Verma discussing deserialization issues 2023-05.

Java

• frohoff/ysoserial - A proof-of-concept tool for generating payloads that exploit unsafe Java object deserialization.

Ruby

• Universal Deserialisation Gadget for Ruby 2.x-3.x - 2021-01-07.
• Ruby Deserialization - Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain 2018-11-08.

SQLi

• payloadbox/sql-injection-payload-list - SQL Injection Payload List.

URL Parsers

• RFC 3986 - Official RFC Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) 2005-01.
• What Is a URL? - Dangers of inconsistent parsing of URLs 2023-04-30.
• http-http-http-http-http-http-http - Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl, discusses URLs validation with examples 2022-09-08.
• A New Era of SSRF - Exploiting URL Parser in Trending Programming Languages! - BlackHat talk by Orange Tsai discussing how different libs parse URLs Slides 2017.

WYSIWYG Editors

• CVE-2023-30943 - Moodle vulnerability allowing a remote user to send a specially crafted HTTP request and create arbitrary folders on the system using TinyMCE loaders 2023-05-11.
• CVE-2011-4906 - Joomla 1.5.12 TinyMCE vulnerability leading to RCE (via Arbitrary File Upload) #778629 Exploit-DB.

XSS

• OWASP: XSS Cheat Sheet - Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet by OWASP.
• Cross-site scripting (XSS) cheat sheet - XSS Cheat Sheet by Portswigger.
• AwesomeXSS - Awesome Page about XSS.
• Cross-site scripting contexts - Portswigger XSS context breakouts.
• Breaking XSS mitigations via Script Gadgets - Conference talk from 2017 explaining various CSP bypasses using Script Gadgets 2017.

XSS via data:-Attribute

• #1444682 - XSS over data: at jamfpro.shopifycloud.com in outdated Swagger UI 2022-01-09.
• #1276742 - Stored XSS in SVG file as data: url in rich text editor 2021-07-24.

Bug Chains

Multiple single vulnerabilities combined to create a more significant one.

• #2089042 - ATO via self-XSS and cookie bridge (to switch to local domains: here yelp.com to yelp.dk). Includes setting additional cookies to break the cookie bridge. 2023-07-28.
• CVE-2023-36844 and Friends: RCE in Juniper Devices - Utilising two bugs that would be near-useless in isolation and combining them to unauthenticated RCE ComputerWeekly CVE-2023-36846 CVE-2023-36845 PoC.
• Two XSS Vulnerabilities in Azure with Embedded postMessage IFrames - iframe, postMessage and XSS 2023-06-14.
• A smorgasbord of a bug chain: postMessage, JSONP, WAF bypass, DOM-based XSS, CORS, CSRF… - a complex bug chain consisting of an insecure message event listener, a shoddy JSONP endpoint, a WAF bypass, DOM-based XSS on an out-of-scope subdomain, and a permissive CORS configuration 2023-05-05.
• #1032610 - Chaining requests to bypass a blacklist 2020-11-12.
• WordPress Transposh: Exploiting a Blind SQL Injection via XSS - combining three CVEs using weak default config, using stored XSS, and blind SQL 2022-07-22.
• XXE-scape through the front door: circumventing the firewall with HTTP request smuggling - XML External Entity injection (XXE) vulnerability combined with request smuggling 2020-03-18.

Language-Level

PHP

• Type Juggling - Official PHP page.
• PHP Magic Tricks: Type Juggling - 2015.
• PHP filters chain - What is it and how to use it 2022.

Python

• Prototype Pollution in Python - 2023-01-04.

Secret Scanning

Docker

• Finding leaked secrets in your Docker image with a scanner - 2022-02-01.
• Security scanners for Python and Docker: from code to dependencies - 2020-05-20.