Re: Another SQL injection in ProFTPd with mod_mysql (probably postgres as well)

[Sergio Aguayo <sergioag () qmailhosting net>]

Maybe this is related to http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3173  ?

That bug only applies to 1.3.1, so 1.3.0 is not affected. 1.3.2 is supposed to fix this bug.

Sergio Aguayo

----- Original Message -----
From: gat3way () gat3way eu
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:49:53 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia
Subject: Another SQL injection in ProFTPd with  mod_mysql (probably postgres as well)

Hello,

Just found out a problem with proftpd's sql authentication. The problem is easily reproducible if you login with 
username like:

USER %') and 1=2 union select 1,1,uid,gid,homedir,shell from users; -- 

and a password of "1" (without quotes).

which leads to a successful login. Different account logins can be made successful using the limit clase (e.g appending 
"LIMIT 5,1" will make you login with as the 5th account in the users table).

As far as I can see in the mysql logs the query becomes:

SELECT userid, passwd, uid, gid, homedir, shell FROM users WHERE (userid='{UNKNOWN TAG}') and 1=2 union select 
1,1,uid,gid,homedir,shell from users limit 1,1; -- ') LIMIT 1

I think the problem lies in the handling of the "%" character (probably that's some way to sanitize input to avoid 
format string things?).

Anyway, %' effectively makes the single quote unescaped and that eventually allows for an SQL injection during login.