Exposure of "Forgot Password" Token on Comments Controller Leads to Account Takeover in tooljet/tooljet

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Aug 22nd 2022


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Description

While digging into your app's source code, I noticed that the getComment() function, that can be found on CommentController, had an IDOR, but when I went to an actual instance of Tooljet and tested it, I noticed that it's way worse than that! 😱

This function returns not only the comment's data, but it also returns sensitive data about the user who created the comment. This includes their passwords' hash and their "forgot password" token, which allows an attacker to simply just change a victim password and log into their account.

How to Reproduce

1 => Create two different accounts. It works whether they are from the same tenant or not, but if so, you will be able to find the comment in the UI;

2 => While logged in as the victim, go to one of your apps and make a comment in it. Then, store the id of this comment for later;

3 => Now, unauthenticated, but impersonating the attacker, go to the forgot password functionality and put the e-mail of the victim, so that the forgot password token can be generated;

4 => Login as the attacker, and make a GET request to /api/comments/id-of-victim-comment-here. It will return some data about the user, such as their email, hashed password, and also their forgot password token!

5 => Log out and go to /reset-password/forgot-password-token-here. Define the new password you want for the victim account, and boom! Now you got access :)

Impact

The forgot password token basically just makes us capable of taking over the account of whoever comment in an app that we can see (bruteforcing comment id's might also be an option but I wouldn't count on it, since it would take a long time to find a valid one).

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Midhun G S validated this vulnerability a year ago
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Midhun G S marked this as fixed in 1.23.0 with commit 45e0d3 a year ago
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