All Links in Two Topics of Indiatimes (indiatimes.com) Are Vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Attacks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) Domain Description:

http://www.indiatimes.com

"The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012, the Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 7.643 million. This ranks the Times of India as the top English daily in India by readership. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, Times of India was ranked 88th among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013, Times of India was ranked 100th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however, Times of India was ranked 174th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory." (en.Wikipedia.org)

(2) Vulnerability description:

The web application indiatimes.com online website has a security problem. Hacker can exploit it by XSS bugs.

The code flaw occurs at Indiatimes's URL links. Indiatimes only filter part of the filenames in its website. All URLs under Indiatimes's "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics are affected. 

Indiatimes uses part of the links under "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics to construct its website content without any checking of those links at all. This mistake is very popular in nowaday websites. Developer is not security expert.

The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Mozilla Firefox (26.0) in Ubuntu (12.04) and Microsoft IE (9.0.15) in Windows 7.

POC Codes:

http://www.indiatimes.com/photogallery/">homeqingdao<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/top-lists/">singaporemanagementuniversity<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/photogallery/lifestyle/">astar<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/top-lists/technology/">nationaluniversityofsingapore<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

POC Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeJWu8_5BKU&feature=youtu.be

Blog Details:

http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/11/two-topics-of-indiatimes-indiatimescom.html

What is XSS?

"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted web sites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it." (OWASP)

(3) Vulnerability Disclosure:

The vulnerabilities were reported to Indiatimes in early September, 2014. However they are still unpatched.

Discovered and Reported by:

Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)

http://www.tetraph.com/wangjing/

Related Articles:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/91

http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2014/11/27/6

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1256

https://progressive-comp.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=141705615327961&w=1

http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/234603051201501352218524/

http://www.techworm.net/2014/12/times-india-website-vulnerable-xss

https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2014120004

https://vulnerabilitypost.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/indiatimes-xss

http://diebiyi.com/articles/security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

http://www.inzeed.com/kaleidoscope/computer-security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

http://itsecurity.lofter.com/post/1cfbf9e7_54fc6c9

http://computerobsess.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes.html

http://whitehatview.tumblr.com/post/104310651681/times-of-india-website-vulnerable-to

http://www.tetraph.com/blog/computer-security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

CVE-2015-2209 – DLGuard Full Path Disclosure (Information Leakage) Web Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2209 - DLGuard Full Path Disclosure (Information Leakage) Web Security Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: DLGuard "/index.php?" "&c" parameter Full Path Disclosure Web Security Vulnerabilities

Product: DLGuard

Vendor: DLGuard

Vulnerable Versions: v4.5

Tested Version: v4.5

Advisory Publication: January 18, 2015

Latest Update: March 20, 2015

Vulnerability Type: Information Exposure [CWE-200]

CVE Reference: CVE-2015-2209

Impact CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Credit: Wang Jing [School of Mathematical Sciences (001), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)] (@justqdjing)

Recommendation Details:

(1) Vendor & Product Description:

Vendor:

DLGuard

Product & Version:

DLGuard

v4.5

Vendor URL & Download:

DLGuard can be obtained from here,

http://www.dlguard.com/dlginfo/index.php

Product Introduction Overview:

“DLGuard is a powerful, yet easy to use script that you simply upload to your website and then rest assured that your internet business is not only safe, but also much easier to manage, automating the tasks you just don't have the time for."

"DLGuard supports the three types, or methods, of sale on the internet:

<1>Single item sales (including bonus products!)

<2>Multiple item sales

<3>Membership websites"

"DLGuard is fully integrated with: PayPal, ClickBank, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, WorldPay, AlertPay, Ebay, PayDotCom, E-Gold, 1ShoppingCart, Click2Sell, Mal's E-Commerce, LinkPoint, PagSeguro, CCBill, CommerseGate, DigiResults, FastSpring, JVZoo, MultiSafePay, Paypal Digital Goods, Plimus, RevenueWire/SafeCart, SWReg, WSO Pro, and even tracks your free product downloads. The DLGuard built-in Shopping Cart offers Paypal, Authorize.net, and 2Checkout payment options. The Membership areas allow Paypal, Clickbank, 2Checkout, and LinkPoint recurring billing as well as linking to any PayPal, ClickBank, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, WorldPay, AlertPay, Ebay, PayDotCom, E-Gold, 1ShoppingCart, E-Bullion, LinkPoint, PagSeguro, CCBill, CommerseGate, DigiResults, FastSpring, JVZoo, MultiSafePay, Paypal Digital Goods, Plimus, RevenueWire/SafeCart, SWReg, WSO Pro single sale and free products so that people who buy your products can access your members area. DLGuard is the perfect solution to secure your single sale item, such as a niche marketing website, software sales, ebook sales, and more! DLGuard not only protects your download page, but it makes setting up new products, or making changes to existing products so much quicker and easier than before."

(2) Vulnerability Details:

DLGuard web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by information leakage attacks - Full Path Disclosure (FPD). This may allow a remote attacker to disclose the software's installation path. While such information is relatively low risk, it is often useful in carrying out additional, more focused attacks.

Several similar products vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. DLguard has patched some of them. NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data (This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g. FISMA)). It has published suggestions, advisories, solutions related to important vulnerabilities.

(2.1) The first bug flaw occurs at "&c" parameter in “index.php?” page.

References:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/67

https://www.mail-archive.com/fulldisclosure%40seclists.org/msg01702.html

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1606

http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2015/02/18/5

https://www.bugscan.net/#!/x/21288

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/authors/11270

http://www.tetraph.com/blog/information-leakage-vulnerability/cve-2015-2209-dlguard-full-path-disclosure/

http://static-173-79-223-25.washdc.fios.verizon.net/?a=139222176300014&r=2&w=2

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=831917900176921&id=767438873291491

http://ithut.tumblr.com/post/118694258318/cve-2015-2209-dlguard-full-path-disclosure

https://computertechhut.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/cve-2015-2209-dlguard-full-path-disclosure-information-leakage-web-security-vulnerabilities/

http://russiapost.blogspot.ru/2015/05/cve-2015-2209-dlguard-full-path.html

https://plus.google.com/100242269120759811496/posts/fTMm4nvGvjx

http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/234603051201541193034183/

http://www.weibo.com/5337321538/ChnJKf55t?

http://itprompt.blogspot.com/2015/05/cve-2015-2209-dlguard-full-path.html

http://webtech.lofter.com/post/1cd3e0d3_6ed0fdc

https://twitter.com/buttercarrot/status/597757492098048000

Odnoklassniki.ru (Одноклассники ) Online Website Covert Redirect Web Security Bugs Based on Google.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odnoklassniki.ru (Одноклассники ) Online Website Covert Redirect Web Security Bugs Based on Google.com

(1) Domain:
Odnoklassniki.ru


"Odnoklassniki, OK.ru (Russian: Одноклассники -Classmates) is a social network service for classmates and old friends. It is popular in Russia and former Soviet Republicsz. The site was developed by Albert Popkov on March 4, 2006. The website currently claims that it has more than 200 million registered users and 45 million daily unique visitors. Users have to be at least seven years old to make an account. Odnoklassniki also currently has an Alexa Internet traffic ranking of 69 worldwide and 7 for Russia. Revenues in the first quarter of 2008 for Odnoklassniki amounted to $3.3 million. The site has been online for at least eight years. Compared with internet averages, Odnoklassniki.ru's users tend to be under the age of 35, and they tend to be men earning less than $30,000 who have postgraduate educations and browse from home. The site is particularly popular among users in Kyrgyzstan (where it is ranked #4) and Armenia (#5)." (Wikipedia)







(2) Vulnerability Description:
Odnoklassniki.ru web application has a computer security problem. Hacker can exploit it by Covert Redirect cyber attacks. 

The vulnerabilities can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Microsoft IE (10.0.9200.16750) of Windows 8, Mozilla Firefox (34.0) & Google Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0 ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (64-bit) of Ubuntu (14.04)，Apple Safari 6.1.6 of Mac OS X Lion 10.7. 

The vulnerability occurs at "odnoklassniki.ru/dk?" page with "&st.link" parameter, i.e.
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/dk?cmd=logExternal&st.cmd=logExternal&st.name=62335557910585&st.link=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com





(2.1) When a user is redirected from Odnoklassniki.ru to another site, Odnoklassniki.ru will check whether the redirected URL belongs to domains Odnoklassniki.ru's whitelist, e.g.
google.com

However, if the URLs in a redirected domain have open URL redirection vulnerabilities themselves, a user could be redirected from Odnoklassniki.ru to a vulnerable URL in that domain first and later be redirected from this vulnerable site to a malicious site. This is as if being redirected from Odnoklassniki.ru directly.


One of the vulnerable domain is,
google.com





(2.2) Use one of  webpages for the following tests. The webpage address is "http://tetraphlike.lofter.com/". Can suppose that this webpage is malicious.


Vulnerable URL:
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/dk?cmd=logExternal&st.cmd=logExternal&st.name=62335557910585&st.link=http%3A%2F%2Fodnoklassniki.ru




POC:
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/dk?cmd=logExternal&st.cmd=logExternal&st.name=62335557910585&st.link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Faccounts%2FLogout%3Fservice%3Dwise%26continue%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgoogleads.g.doubleclick.net%252Faclk%253Fsa%253DL%2526ai%253DCtHoIVxn3UvjLOYGKiAeelIHIBfLQnccEAAAQASAAUNTx5Pf4_____wFgvwWCARdjYS1wdWItMDQ2NjU4MjEwOTU2NjUzMsgBBOACAKgDAaoE5AFP0NHr5cHwFmWgKNs6HNTPVk7TWSV-CDHX83dKdGSWJ2ADoZNIxUHZwjAODRyDY_7nVtpuqSLOTef4xzVxDQ2U22MNbGak33Ur7i2jDB8LdYt9TbC3ifsXmklY5jl3Zpq4_lP7wagVfjt0--tNPPGTR96NGbxgPvfHMq9ZsTXpjhc_lPlnyGjlWzF8yn437iaxhGRwYLt_CymifLO2YaJPkCm9nLpONtUM-mstUSpKQrP2VjjaZkbDtuK0naLLBV37aYEY4TzWQi8fQGN47z4XgpinBCna91zQayZjn2wxccDCl0zgBAGgBhU%2526num%253D0%2526sig%253DAOD64_3Qi4qG3CRVHRI5AHSkSGuL7HJqSA%2526client%253Dca-pub-0466582109566532%2526adurl%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.tetraph.com%252Fkaleidoscope.html

POC video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_-xPsYD-s


Blog Detail:
http://tetraph.blogspot.com/2014/05/odnoklassnikiru-covert-redirect.html








(3) What is Covert Redirect? 

Covert Redirect is a class of security bugs disclosed in May 2014. It is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a user to the parameter value without sufficient validation. This often makes use of Open Redirect and XSS (Cross-site Scripting) vulnerabilities in third-party applications.

Covert Redirect is also related to single sign-on. It is known by its influence on OAuth and OpenID. Hacker may use it to steal users' sensitive information. Almost all OAuth 2.0 and OpenID providers worldwide are affected. Covert Redirect can work together with CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery) as well.

Discover and Reporter:

Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)

http://tetraph.com/wangjing/

More Details:
http://tetraph.com/security/covert-redirect/odnoklassniki-ru-covert-redirect-vulnerability-based-on-google/
http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/10/odnoklassnikiru-covert-redirect.html
http://whitehatpost.lofter.com/post/1cc773c8_706b5e4
https://mathfas.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/odnoklassniki-ru-covert-redirect-vulnerability-based-on-google/
https://twitter.com/yangziyou/status/614327346808664064
http://ithut.tumblr.com/post/119494119203/securitypost
https://vulnerabilitypost.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/odnoklassniki-ru-covert-redirect-vulnerability-based-on-google/
http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/23460305120144511829839/
http://computerobsess.blogspot.com/2014/10/odnoklassnikiru-covert-redirect.html
http://www.inzeed.com/kaleidoscope/covert-redirect/odnoklassniki-ru-covert-redirect-vulnerability-based-on-google/