Embedthis GoAhead 2.5.0 HTTP Header Injection Vulnerability - Active Check

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:embedthis:goahead";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.114133");
  script_version("2024-09-25T05:06:11+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-09-25 05:06:11 +0000 (Wed, 25 Sep 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-09-23 15:56:48 +0200 (Mon, 23 Sep 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-24 17:37:00 +0000 (Mon, 24 Aug 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-16645");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");

  script_name("Embedthis GoAhead 2.5.0 HTTP Header Injection Vulnerability - Active Check");

  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web Servers");
  script_dependencies("gb_embedthis_goahead_http_detect.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_mandatory_keys("embedthis/goahead/http/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Embedthis GoAhead is prone to an HTTP header injection
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Send multiple crafted HTTP POST requests and checks the
  responses.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"For certain pages, Embedthis GoAhead creates links containing a
  hostname obtained from an arbitrary HTTP Host header sent by an attacker.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker can potentially use this vulnerability in a phishing
  attack.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Embedthis GoAhead version 2.5.0 is known to be affected. Other
  versions might be affected as well.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year
  since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution
  options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or
  replace the product by another one.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/Ramikan/Vulnerabilities/blob/master/GoAhead%20Web%20server%20HTTP%20Header%20Injection");

  exit(0);
}

include("http_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");

if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE, service:"www"))
  exit(0);

if(!get_app_location(cpe:CPE, port:port, nofork:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vuln_urls = make_array();

poc_urls = make_list(
  "/goform/login", #POC: 1
  "/config/log_off_page.htm", #POC: 2
  "/"); #POC: 3

foreach poc_url (poc_urls) {

  vt_strings = get_vt_strings();
  host_header = vt_strings["lowercase_rand"];

  req = http_post_put_req(port: port, url: poc_url, data: "testdata");
  req = ereg_replace(string: req, pattern: '(Host\\s*: [^\r\n]+)', replace: "Host: " + host_header);
  res = http_keepalive_send_recv(port: port, data: req);
  if(!res)
    continue;

  if(match = egrep(string: res, pattern: "(^Location\s*:|This document has moved to a new).+" + host_header, icase: TRUE)) {
    vuln_urls[poc_url] = chomp(match);
    VULN = TRUE;
  }
}

if(VULN) {
  report = "It was possible to inject a host header and create a manipulated link via a HTTP POST-request to:";
  foreach vuln_url (keys(vuln_urls)) {
    report += '\n\nURL:         ' + http_report_vuln_url(port: port, url: vuln_url, url_only: TRUE);
    report += '\nResponse(s): ' + vuln_urls[vuln_url];
  }
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);