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Friday, 5 June 2015

ESPN espn.go.com Login & Register Page XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Web Security Vulnerabilities





ESPN espn.go.com Login & Register Page XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Web Security Vulnerabilities




Domain:
http://espn.go.com/



"ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite television channel that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Corporation (which holds the remaining 20% interest). The channel focuses on sports-related programming including live and recorded event telecasts, sports news and talk shows, and other original programming.

ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. John Skipper currently serves as president of ESPN, a position he has held since January 1, 2012. While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, it has been subject to criticism, which includes accusations of biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. As of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households (81.1% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. In addition to the flagship channel and its seven related channels in the United States, ESPN broadcasts in more than 200 countries, operating regional channels in Australia, Brazil, Latin America and the United Kingdom, and owning a 20% interest in The Sports Network (TSN) as well as its five sister networks and NHL Network in Canada."(Wikipedia)








Vulnerability description:

Espn.go.com has a cyber security bug problem. It is vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation (Open Redirect) attacks.

Those vulnerabilities are very dangerous. Since they happen at ESPN's "login" & "register" pages that are credible. Attackers can abuse those links to mislead ESPN's users. The success rate of attacks may be high.

During the tests, besides the links given above, large number of ESPN's links are vulnerable to those attacks.


The programming code flaw occurs at "espn.go.com"'s "login?" & "register" pages with "redirect" parameter, i.e.


Tests were performed on Firefox (33.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (8.0. 7601) in Windows 8.






Disclosed by:
Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.  (@justqdjing)




"The Full Disclosure mailing list is a public forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques, as well as tools, papers, news, and events of interest to the community. FD differs from other security lists in its open nature and support for researchers' right to decide how to disclose their own discovered bugs. The full disclosure movement has been credited with forcing vendors to better secure their products and to publicly acknowledge and fix flaws rather than hide them. Vendor legal intimidation and censorship attempts are not tolerated here!" A great many of the fllowing web securities have been published here, Injection, Broken Authentication and Session Management, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object References, Security Misconfiguration, Sensitive Data Exposure, Missing Function Level Access Control, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities, Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards. It also publishes suggestions, advisories, solutions details related to XSS and Open Redirect vulnerabilities and cyber intelligence recommendations.




(1) XSS Web Security Vulnerability

XSS may allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between their browser and the server. Base on Acunetix, exploited XSS is commonly used to achieve the following malicious results

  • Identity theft
  • Accessing sensitive or restricted information
  • Gaining free access to otherwise paid for content
  • Spying on user’s web browsing habits
  • Altering browser functionality
  • Public defamation of an individual or corporation
  • Web application defacement
  • Denial of Service attacks





Vulnerable URLs:



POC:


























(2) Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Web Security Vulnerability

From OWASP, an open redirect is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a user to the parameter value without any validation. This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks to get users to visit malicious sites without realizing it. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL, that if clicked, would redirect a victim from the intended legitimate web site to an arbitrary web site of the attacker's choosing. Such attacks are useful as the crafted URL initially appear to be a web page of a trusted site. This could be leveraged to direct an unsuspecting user to a web page containing attacks that target client side software such as a web browser or document rendering programs.



Use one of webpages for the following tests. The webpage address is "https://computerpitch.wordpress.com/". Suppose that this webpage is malicious.



The vulnerabilities can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Microsoft IE (10.0.9200.16750) of Windows 8, Mozilla Firefox (34.0) & Google Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0 ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (64-bit) of Ubuntu (14.04),Apple Safari 6.1.6 of Mac OS X Lion 10.7. 





(2.1) Login Page  Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Vulnerability


Vulnerable URL 1:

POC:


Vulnerable URL 2:

POC:





(2.2) Vulnerabilities Attacked without User Login

Vulnerable URL 1:

POC:



This vulnerability was used to demonstrate "Covert Redirect" of Facebook,


Poc Video:

Blog Detail:




Vulnerable URL 2:

POC:





Vulnerable URL 3:

POC:












(3) Those security problems were reported to ESPN in early 2014. However, they are still unpatched.









http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/12/espn-espngocom-login-register
http://diebiyi.com/articles/security/espn-xss-open-redirect/
https://infoswift.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/espn-are-suffering-serious-xss-and-dest
http://webcabinet.tumblr.com/post/118510631147/espn-are-suffering-serious-xss
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=435630669942495
http://guyuzui.lofter.com/post/1ccdcda4_6e6b17e
http://mathswift.blogspot.com/2015/05/espn-are-suffering-serious-xss-and-dest.html
http://inzeed.tumblr.com/post/120775132901/espn-xss-open-redirect
http://www.tetraph.com/blog/computing-science/espn-xss-open-redirect/







Wednesday, 13 May 2015

CVE-2014-9468 InstantASP InstantForum.NET Multiple XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities




















CVE-2014-9468 InstantASP InstantForum.NET Multiple XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities


Exploit Title: InstantASP InstantForum.NET Multiple XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities
Product: InstantForum.NET
Vendor: InstantASP
Vulnerable Versions: v4.1.3   v4.1.1   v4.1.2   v4.0.0   v4.1.0   v3.4.0
Tested Version: v4.1.3   v4.1.1   v4.1.2
Advisory Publication: February 18, 2015
Latest Update: April 05, 2015
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-79]
CVE Reference: CVE-2014-9468
Impact CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized modification
Discover and Reporter: Jing Wang [School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore] (@justqdjing)





Preposition Details:


(1) Vendor & Product Description:


Vendor:
InstantASP


Product & Version:
InstantForum.NET
v4.1.3   v4.1.1   v4.1.2   v4.0.0   v4.1.0   v3.4.0


Vendor URL & Download:
InstantForum.NET can be purchased from here,


Product Introduction Overview:
“InstantForum.NET is a feature rich, ultra high performance ASP.NET & SQL Server discussion forum solution designed to meet the needs of the most demanding online communities or internal collaboration environments. Now in the forth generation, InstantForum.NET has been completely rewritten from the ground-up over several months to introduce some truly unique features & performance enhancements."

"The new administrator control panel now offers the most comprehensive control panel available for any ASP.NET based forum today. Advanced security features such as role based permissions and our unique Permission Sets feature provides unparalleled configurable control over the content and features that are available to your users within the forum. Moderators can easily be assigned to specific forums with dedicated moderator privileges for each forum. Bulk moderation options ensure even the busiest forums can be managed effectively by your moderators."

"The forums template driven skinning architecture offers complete customization support. Each skin can be customized to support a completely unique layout or visual appearance. A single central style sheet controls every aspect of a skins appearance. The use of unique HTML wrappers and ASP.NET 1.1 master pages ensures page designers can easily integrate an existing design around the forum. Skins, wrappers & master page templates can be applied globally to all forums or to any specific forum."





(2) Vulnerability Details:
InstantForum.NET web application has a cyber security bug problem. It can be exploited by stored XSS attacks. This may allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between their browser and the server.

Several other similar products 0-day vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. InstantForum has patched some of them. BugScan is the first community-based scanner, experienced five code refactoring. It has redefined the concept of the scanner provides sources for the latest info-sec news, tools, and advisories. It also publishs suggestions, advisories, cyber intelligence, attack defense and solutions details related to important vulnerabilities.


(2.1) The first programming code flaw occurs at "&SessionID" parameter in “Join.aspx?” page.

(2.2) The second programming code flaw occurs at "&SessionID" parameter in “Logon.aspx?” page.





References:







Tuesday, 12 May 2015

CVE-2014-9469 vBulletin XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities
















CVE-2014-9469  vBulletin XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities


Exploit Title: vBulletin XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities
Product: vBulletin Forum
Vendor: vBulletin
Vulnerable Versions: 5.1.3   5.0.5   4.2.2   3.8.7   3.6.7   3.6.0   3.5.4
Tested Version: 5.1.3 4.2.2 
Advisory Publication: February 12, 2015
Latest Update: February 26, 2015
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-79]
CVE Reference: CVE-2014-9469
Impact CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized modification
Writer and Creditor: Jing Wang [School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore] (@justqdjing)





Preposition Details:

(1) Vendor & Product Description:
Vendor: 
vBulletin


Product & Version: 
vBulletin Forum
5.1.3   5.0.5   4.2.2   3.8.7   3.6.7   3.6.0   3.5.4


Vendor URL & Download: 
vBulletin can be acquired from here,


Product Introduction Overview:
"vBulletin (vB) is a proprietary Internet forum software package developed by vBulletin Solutions, Inc., a division of Internet Brands. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server."

Since the initial release of the vBulletin forum product in 2000, there have been many changes and improvements. Below is a list of the major revisions and some of the changes they introduced. The current production version is 3.8.7, 4.2.2, and 5.1.3.

Simplified site set up and customization
The new Site Builder makes it easier than ever to build and manage a site. Customizable page templates, drag-and-drop configuration and in-line site editing simplify page layout. A variety of design themes can be easily selected.

Dynamic tools for content discovery
Customizable content modules provide enhanced content discovery, engaging users into deeper site visits. The vBulletin search has been re-architected to significantly improve the quality of its results, further facilitating content discovery.

Sleek new UI features activity stream and increased social engagement
Improved social functionality includes groups, new user profiles, comments functionality, an integrated messaging hub, social content curation, real-time updates and more.

Expanded photo and video capabilities
The new interface invites users to quickly post photos and video, expanding content on vBulletin sites. This media is then leveraged by being better integrated with the rest of a site's content. User profiles provide an engaging aggregation of all media posted by them.

Category-leading mobile optimization
The integrated mobile-optimized version ensures smartphone visitors will stay longer and return.

Robust architecture
Improved architecture provides better performance and easier customization
Built-in SEO helps maximize search traffic
Easy-to-use upgrader tool available for vBulletin 3 and 4 sites, plus importer for sites on other forum software"



(2) Vulnerability Details:
vBulletin web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by XSS attacks. This may allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between their browser and the server.

Several other similar products 0-day vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. vBulletion has patched some of them. Gmane (pronounced "mane") is an e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Gmane is an archive; it never expires messages (unless explicitly requested by users). Gmane also supports importing list postings made prior to a list's inclusion on the service. It has published suggestions, advisories, solutions related to important vulnerabilities.

(2.1) The programming code flaw occurs at "forum/help" page. Add "hash symbol" first. Then add script at the end of it.











Related Work: