full-disclosure - Re: Oracle NoSQL Directory Traversal

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:30:48 -0400
From: Ed Carp <erc@...ox.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Oracle NoSQL Directory Traversal

Password file, yawn. Shadow password file, that would be a much bigger
deal...
On Nov 5, 2011 11:46 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:58:20 BST, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Buher=E1tor?= said:
>
> > "Oracle NoSQL Database is intended to be installed in a secure
> > location where physical and network access to the store is restricted
> > to trusted users.
>
> Which any savvy sysadmin knows really means "It's your problem to set
> up iptables to restrict this sucker..."
>
> And of course, *that* usually means "avoid this product like the plague" ;)
>
> > $ curl -v
> http://127.0.0.1:5001/kvadminui/LogDownloadService?log=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
>
> OK as far as it goes.  But take it a step further.  Does the
> LogDownloadService
> process do any sanity checking and only let you download world-readable
> files?
> If so, it's quite the yawner of an "exploit".
>
> Or does it let you snarf up /etc/shadow, or other ways to get a system
> privilege escalation. Remember - you could have users trusted with the
> data in
> the database, but not other content on the system. A *lot* of shops have
> policy
> where the DBAs do *not* have the root password - can you use this to bypass
> that policy? Can you get it to cough up a file containing the database
> config
> or access passwords?  Can you get it to cough up the logfile where it logs
> the
> fact you accessed it (and can you abuse that into an infinite loop filling
> the
> log space?)  What other creative failure modes can you come up with for
> this
> "fee-chur"? :)
>
>
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