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'/;/WEB-INF/' Information Disclosure Vulnerability (HTTP)

🗓️ 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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'/;/WEB-INF/' Information Disclosure Vulnerability (HTTP) impacts various products such as Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira Server, Caucho Resin, and VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and Realize Automation. It allows an attacker to gather sensitive data through crafted HTTP requests

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117708");
  script_version("2025-01-21T05:37:33+0000");
  script_xref(name:"CISA", value:"Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-26085", "CVE-2021-26086", "CVE-2021-44138", "CVE-2022-31656");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-21 05:37:33 +0000 (Tue, 21 Jan 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-10-06 10:19:53 +0000 (Wed, 06 Oct 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-08-11 16:02:00 +0000 (Thu, 11 Aug 2022)");
  script_name("'/;/WEB-INF/' Information Disclosure Vulnerability (HTTP)");
  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web Servers");
  script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "no404.nasl", "webmirror.nasl", "DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 8080);
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-72695");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-67893");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164405/Atlassian-Jira-Server-Data-Center-8.4.0-File-Read.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164401/Atlassian-Confluence-Server-7.5.1-Arbitrary-File-Read.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/maybe-why-not/reponame/issues/2");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Various application or web servers / products are prone to an
  information disclosure vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and checks the response.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"The following products are known to be affected:

  - CVE-2021-26085: Atlassian Confluence

  - CVE-2021-26086: Atlassian Jira Server

  - CVE-2021-44138: Caucho Resin version 4.0.52 through 4.0.56

  - CVE-2022-31656: VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and Realize Automation

  Other products might be affected as well.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The servlet specification prohibits servlet containers from
  serving resources in the '/WEB-INF' and '/META-INF' directories of a web application archive
  directly to clients.

  This means that URLs like:

  http://example.com/WEB-INF/web.xml

  will return an error message, rather than the contents of the deployment descriptor.

  However, some application or web servers / products are prone to a vulnerability that exposes this
  information if the client requests a URL like this instead:

  http://example.com/<semicolon>/WEB-INF/web.xml

  http://example.com/<semicolon>/web-inf/web.xml

  (note the '<semicolon>/' before 'WEB-INF').");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Based on the information provided in this file an attacker might
  be able to gather additional info and/or sensitive data about the application / the application /
  web server.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"The following vendor fixes are known:

  - Update Atlassian Confluence to the latest available version

  - Update Atlassian Jira Server to the latest available version

  - Update Caucho Resin to the latest available version

  For other products please contact the vendor for more information on possible fixes.");

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

  exit(0);
}

# nb: resin-web.xml for Caucho Resin is separately tested in common/2023/caucho/gb_resin_path_trav_vuln_apr22_active.nasl

include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");

base_pattern  = "^\s*<(web-app( .+|>$)|servlet(-mapping)?>$)";
extra_pattern = "^\s*</(web-app|servlet(-mapping)?)>$";

port = http_get_port( default:8080 );

foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/",
                               "/s/test/_", # nb: Atlassian Jira Server and Atlassian Confluence
                               "/SAAS/t/_", # nb: CVE-2022-31656
                               http_cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {

  if( dir == "/" )
    dir = "";

  url = dir + "/WEB-INF/web.xml";
  res = http_get_cache( item:url, port:port );

  # nb: Avoid excessive reporting if the file is directly accessible (already checked by
  # 2018/gb_sensitive_file_disclosures_http.nasl and 2021/gb_web-inf_plain_info_disclosure.nasl).
  if( res &&
      egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
      egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) )
    continue;

  url = str_replace( string:url, find:"/WEB-INF/web.xml", replace:"/;/WEB-INF/web.xml" );

  req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
  res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE );

  if( res &&
      egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
      egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) ) {
    report  = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
    report += '\nResponse (truncated):\n\n' + substr( res, 0, 1500 );
    security_message( port:port, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }

  # nb: We also want to check the lowercase variant...
  url = str_replace( string:url, find:"/WEB-INF/web.xml", replace:"/web-inf/web.xml" );

  req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
  res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE );
  if( ! res )
    continue;

  if( egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
      egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) ) {
    report  = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
    report += '\nResponse (truncated):\n\n' + substr( res, 0, 1500 );
    security_message( port:port, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }
}

exit( 99 );

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