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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:43:46 +0000
From: Ryan Dewhurst <ryandewhurst@...il.com>
To: Ed Carp <erc@...ox.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: Oracle NoSQL Directory Traversal

It doesn't matter what file was included. The problem is that a local
file can be included, irrelevant to the choice of file.

Ryan Dewhurst

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On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ed Carp <erc@...ox.com> wrote:
> 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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