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FortiLogger - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)


Application Details

FortiLogger is a web-based logging and reporting software designed specifically for FortiGate firewalls, running on Windows operating systems. It contains features such as instant status tracking, logging, search / filtering, reporting and hotspot.


Vulnerability

A remote attacker could upload a malicious file under ‘Hotspot Settings’, this is caused by an improper validation of file extensions. A specially crafted request could be sent which would allow the attacker to execute code on the vulnerable system.


Identification

There is a Metasploit module available which has been written to exploit the file upload vulnerability.

By stepping through the code I was able to determine that the script performs a check for the vulnerable version before delivering the exploit:

if version <= Rex::Version.new('4.4.2.2')
 CheckCode::Vulnerable("FortiLogger version #{version}")
 else
 CheckCode::Safe("FortiLogger version #{version}")
 end

Once the script has confirmed the version number of ‘4.4.2.2’ it performs a POST request:

POST /Config/SaveUploadedHotspotLogoFile

This can be used to upload a malicious file as long as it has the content-type of ‘image/png’

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="b3r.asp"
Content-Type: image/png

Once successfully uploaded it can then be executed by sending a GET request:

GET /Assets/temp/hotspot/img/logohotspot.asp

Detection

By turning this into a traffic file and matching rule we are able to detect attempts to upload malicious files to the application.


Coverage

Idappcom has created signature 8020953 along with a traffic file.


References


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