The trudesk application allows large characters to insert in the input field "Full Name" on the signup field which can allow attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request in polonel/trudesk

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Reported on

May 14th 2022


POC:

  1. go to signup form: http://127.0.0.1:8118/signup
  2. Fill the Full Name input field with huge characters(more than lakhs or crores)
  3. After created the account, check the admin panel: http://127.0.0.1:8118/accounts, go to Accounts --> customers
  4. The admin panel will be flooded with our payload

POC Screenshot:

https://ibb.co/2Nvj908

POC video:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vng5aufoydb6hl5/trudesk-poc.mov/file

Impact

  1. It can leads to Senial of service attack
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polonel/trudesk maintainer has acknowledged this report 10 months ago
Chris Brame assigned a CVE to this report 10 months ago
Chris Brame validated this vulnerability 10 months ago
Akshay Ravi has been awarded the disclosure bounty
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Chris Brame marked this as fixed in 1.2.2 with commit 87e231 10 months ago
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