[CVE-2013-6234] XSS File Upload in SpagoBI v4.0

2014-05-0500:00:00

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Advisory Information

Title: XSS File Upload
Date published: 2014-03-01
Date of last update: 2014-03-01
Vendors contacted: Engineering Group
Discovered by: Christian Catalano
Severity: Medium

Vulnerability Information

CVE reference: CVE-2013-6234
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4
CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Component/s: SpagoBI
Class: Input Manipulation

Introduction

SpagoBI[1] is an Open Source Business Intelligence suite, belonging to the free/open source SpagoWorld initiative, founded and supported by Engineering Group[2].
It offers a large range of analytical functions, a highly functional semantic layer often absent in other open source platforms and projects, and a respectable set of advanced data visualization features including geospatial analytics.
[3]SpagoBI is released under the Mozilla Public License, allowing its commercial use. SpagoBI is hosted on OW2 Forge[4] managed by OW2 Consortium, an independent open-source software community.

[1] - http://www.spagobi.org
[2] - http://www.eng.it
[3] - http://www.spagoworld.org/xwiki/bin/view/SpagoBI/PressRoom?id=SpagoBI-ForresterWave-July2012
[4] - http://forge.ow2.org/projects/spagobi

Vulnerability Description

SpagoBI contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. This flaw exists because the application does not restrict uploading for specific file types from Worksheet designer function.
This may allow a remote attacker to upload arbitrary files (e.g. .html for XSS) that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between their browser and the server or more easily conduct more serious attacks.

Technical Description / Proof of Concept Code

An attacker (a SpagoBI malicious user with a restricted account) can upload a file from Worksheet designer function.

To reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below:

Using a browser log on to SpagoBI with restricted account (e.g. Business User Account)
Go on: Worksheet designer function
Click on: Image and Choose image
Upload malicious file and save it

XSS Malicious File Upload Attack has been successfully completed!

More details about SpagoBI Worksheet Engine and Worksheet designer
http://wiki.spagobi.org/xwiki/bin/view/spagobi_server/Worksheet#HWorksheetoverview

(e.g. Malicious File: xss.html)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function myFunction()
{alert("XSS");}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="myFunction()" value="Show alert box">
</body>
</html>

Business Impact

Exploitation of the vulnerability requires low privileged application user account but low or medium user interaction. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, client-side phishing, client-side external redirects or malware loads and client-side manipulation of the vulnerable module context.

Systems Affected

This vulnerability was tested against: SpagoBI 4.0
Older versions are probably affected too, but they were not checked.

Vendor Information, Solutions and Workarounds

This issue is fixed in SpagoBI v4.1, which can be downloaded from:
http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204

Fixed by vendor [verified]

Credits

This vulnerability has been discovered by:
Christian Catalano aka wastasy ch(dot)catalano(at)gmail(dot)com

Vulnerability History

October 09th, 2013: Vulnerability identification
October 22th, 2013: Vendor notification to [SpagoBI Team]
November 05th, 2013: Vendor Response/Feedback from [SpagoBI Team]
December 16th, 2013: Vendor Fix/Patch [SpagoBI Team]
January 16th, 2014: Fix/Patch Verified
March 01st, 2014: Vulnerability disclosure

Disclaimer

The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with
no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.
I accept no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information.

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