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Spring Cloud Gateway Actuator API SpEL Code Injection (CVE-2022-22947)
cve-2022 | Level: Easy | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Free Lab |
Introduction
In the first quarter of 2022, an interesting and critical (base score of 10.0) Spring Cloud Gateway Code Injection vulnerability was discovered leveraging the Actuator API to perform SpEL Injection, potentially leading to system compromise.
In spring cloud gateway versions prior to 3.1.1+ and 3.0.7+ , applications are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. A remote attacker could make a maliciously crafted request that could allow arbitrary remote execution on the remote host.
Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22947
The Vulnerability
A route after being added to the /actuator endpoint will be pushed to the routing cache. To publish the route, a refresh request must be made and all the routes in the cache would be converted one by one to a Route. If the passed arguments' value starts with #{ and ends with } it would be considered as a SpEL expression and evaluated.Reference: https://blog.viettelcybersecurity.com/cve-2022-22947-spring-cloud-gateway-code-injection-vulnerability/
Lab Environment
In this lab environment, the user is going to get access to a low-privileged user in an Ubuntu CLI instance. The root user on the same Ubuntu instance is hosting an application leveraging Spring Cloud Gateway, that is vulnerable to CVE-2022-22947 and is accessible from the tools installed on the Ubuntu machine at http://127.0.0.1:8080.
Objective: Exploit the Actuator API SpEL Code Injection vulnerability in the deployed Spring Cloud Gateway-based application to perform privilege escalation and retrieve the flag from the /root/FLAG file.
Acknowledgements
The setup code is based on the following Github repository: https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/tree/master/spring/CVE-2022-22947
Instructions:
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Once you start the lab, you will have access to a root terminal of a Kali instance
Your Kali has an interface with IP address 192.X.Y.Z. Run "ip addr" to know the values of X and Y.
The target server should be located at the IP address 192.X.Y.3. It can be accessed using the hostname demo.ine.local.
Do not attack the gateway located at IP address 192.X.Y.1
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| 1. | /root/FLAG |
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