![ User can access and
modify object values
Example:
◦ Login using your credentials
◦ Link refers to
http://app/details?userid=1
◦ Script download of all files
userid=[1-9999]
Hashing doesn’t help
◦ Reverse MD5 hash lookup
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- 1. Rasheed Hussain, PhD Assistant Professor, Secure System and Network Engineering [email protected] https://sites.google.com/site/rasheedinfosec/ Offensive Technologies (OT) March 30, 2017 Web Application Security OWASP top 10 (2013)
- 2. Motivation Causes of data breaches OWASP ◦ Top ten attacks Now what? Do it yourself Questions?
- 3. In many cases the web application stores: ◦ Credit card details ◦ Personal information ◦ Passwords that also might be used elsewhere Media likes hacks ◦ You company doesn’t… Governments want to enforce data protection ◦ USA ◦ Russia? ◦ EU will follow soon(?)
- 4. Your company doesn’t like that Lektober is used as a reference to the month of October 2011 in which there every day sensitive data from a federal government agency, company or association was announced. The name was given by the Dutch technology site: Macworld. The editors of Macworld hacked the websites of public authorities, business networks or associations. At the head of the editorial was Brenno de Winter, Brenno specializing in IT security and privacy. He was the leading investigative journalist in the Lektober project.
- 6. Do you share your Phone’s Location Data with Everyone? Do you always stay logged in on social nets? Do you log into private services on public computers? Do you share all kinds of data with retailers? Do you put too much trust in “secure” apps? Do you hook all your online services together? http://lifehacker.com/how-you-leak-your-privacy-every-day-and-how-to-stop-1547653862
- 8. In many cases caused by technical issues: ◦ Poor/no input filtering ◦ Outdated software with known weaknesses ◦ Weak passwords Non-techies are creating technical solutions: ◦ Click and play enterprise website ◦ Not aware of security issues Techies are also not always aware ◦ What about you? In many cases the issues are quite easy to solve ◦ If you know what to do…
- 9. The same issues keep on coming back ◦ People make the same mistakes over and over again… Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP): ◦ Free and open ◦ Top ten project Documents the 10 most critical webapp security flaws http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Te n_Project Latest version: 2013 ◦ Documents solutions For all popular webapp environments https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive- downloads/v2/code.google.com/owasptop10/OWASP%20Top%2010%20-%202013.pdf
- 11. E.g. contact form forwards you to the home page after submitting your message ◦ http://www.example.com/redirect.jsp?url=/home.htm Malicious URLs might be used ◦ http://www.example.com/redirect.jsp?url=malware.com ◦ Download malware from external site after submitting form
- 12. Keep your software up-to-date ◦ Patching doesn’t stop at operating system level! Database Web server Libraries … Lots of automated tools available ◦ Mapping: nmap, … ◦ Scanning: Nessus, Nexpose, … ◦ Exploiting: Metasploit, Canvas, … ◦ Script kiddies can and will do this!
- 13. Nmap ◦ Open tcp ports ◦ Open udp ports ◦ OS version ◦ Wildcards ◦ Range ◦ Mask notation
- 14. Cross Site Request Forgery (23% by IBM) Inject code that: ◦ Runs in the victim’s browser ◦ Open a session to a vulnerable 3rd party service Using the victim’s credentials Example: ◦ Insert a money transfer in a page Forum post Email message (phising) CSRF made easy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EHlfTgGUU
- 15. Server side authorization checks are not performed on all actions (all functions) Attacks: ◦ Escalate from anonymous user to authenticated user ◦ Escalate for authenticated user to admin Examples: ◦ If /users/user1/show_accounts/ exists, it might be worth checking if /users/userN/show_accounts/ also exists Difficult to identify with automated tools
- 16. Hidden and unchecked parameter: ◦ Add to POST data when updating a user: &ctl00%24ContentPlaceHolder1%24dvUser%24cbxUs erAdmin=on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMv_gyCNGpk&t=107s
- 17. Secure transport: Sending sensitive information over an unencrypted link ◦ No encryption / obfuscation ◦ Weak encryption ◦ Downgrade attacks Check for no encryption / obfuscation ◦ Sniff data GET http://target/INSTALL.pgsql.txt HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Host: target Proxy-Authorization: Basic YWQxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx= Connection: Close Pragma: no-cache Referer: http://target/robots.txt
- 18. Secure transport: Weak transport encryption ◦ Allowed SSL ciphers Known flaws is SSLv2/3 SSLv2/3 still enabled in many cases Weak ciphers can be cracked openssl s_client -no_tls1 -connect www.google.com:443 (?) ◦ Weak algorithms E.g. MD5, SHA-1 https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl- users/2015-December/002399.html
- 19. Secure transport: Downgrade attacks ◦ Strip SSL layer: stripssl http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc- 09/Marlinspike/BlackHat-DC-09-Marlinspike-Defeating- SSL.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd5qGS-5C0I ◦ Hijack e.g. Facebook and Twitter sessions: Firesheep http://codebutler.github.com/firesheep/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NAM8oG1WM ◦ IBM’s Appscan (Not Free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYlzTQlF8Ws
- 20. SSLstrip through hotspot https://avicoder.me/2016/02/22/SSLstrip-for-newbies/
- 21. SSLstrip
- 22. Secure storage: Not encrypting sensitive data Using home grown algorithms Insecure use of strong algorithms Continued use of proven weak algorithms (MD5, SHA-1, RC3, RC4, …) Hard coded keys, and storing keys in unprotected environments
- 23. Real-life example
same passwords
1 2 … different length passwords - 24. How to decode the passwords? ◦ Create your own account ◦ Password = ‘aaaaaaaa’ Store password hash, e.g. 0102030405060708 ◦ Password = ‘bbbbbbbb’ Store password hash, e.g. 0203040506070809 ◦ Etc. ◦ Find the link password ↔ hash ◦ Write a decoder for (i = 0; i < in.length(); i++) print (alfabet(in.position(i) + i)) ◦ Decode all passwords ◦ Dump sensitive information
- 27. Out of the box installs ◦ Next, next, next, finish Find it using Google: ◦ Web front-end for Oracle intitle:iSQL intitle:Release inurl:isqlplus ◦ Indexing of sensitive information intitle:"Index of" .mysql_history filetype:pdf paspoortnummer koopcontract filetype:sql "phpMyAdmin SQL Dump” ◦ Many many useful Google Dorks online http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/
- 28. Default passwords ◦ http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html
- 29. iPhone botnet ◦ Default SSH password after jailbreak Routers
- 30. User can access and modify object values Example: ◦ Login using your credentials ◦ Link refers to http://app/details?userid=1 ◦ Script download of all files userid=[1-9999] Hashing doesn’t help ◦ Reverse MD5 hash lookup ◦ http://tools.benramsey.com/md5/
- 32. The App uses unverified data in a SQL call The attacker modifies the query parameter in their browser to point to Admin String sqlquery = "SELECT * FROM useraccounts WHERE account = ?"; PreparedStatement st = connection.prepareStatement(sqlquery , � ); st.setString( 1, request.getParameter("acct")); ResultSet results = st.executeQuery( ); http://webapp.com/app/accountInfo?acct=admin
- 33. Cross Site Scripting ◦ Attacker can inject untrusted snippets of JS into your application without validation ◦ JS is then executed by the victim who visits the target site ◦ 3 types of XSS Reflected XSS Attacker sends the victim a link to the target app through email, social media, etc. The link has script embedded which executes when target site is visited Stored XSS Attacker plants persistent script in target website…
- 34. Around 17% of all apps are vulnerable to XSS according to IBM
- 35. Cross Site Scripting Effects ◦ Execute scripts in the victim’s browser Hijack user sessions Deface web sites Insert hostile content Conduct phishing attacks Take over the user’s browser using scripting malware ◦ In most cases Javascript based Also applicable to other scripting languages
- 36. Types Revisited ◦ Reflective Code injected by e.g. sending phishing email victim.com/get.php?id= E.g. one phishing email per attack ◦ Stored Evil code is stored in the database Store once, run for all users E.g. store in record for welcome message of CMS ◦ DOM-based No HTTP request is required, the script is injected as a result of modifying the DOM of the target site in the client side code in the victim’s browser and executed
- 37. Advanced tools are out there to abuse flaws ◦ Tunnel traffic using XSS http://www.portcullis- security.com/uplds/whitepapers/XSSTunnelling.pdf http://www.portcullis-security.com/tools/free/xssshell- xsstunnell.zip
- 38. Prevention ◦ Use vetted libraries or frameworks ◦ Use HttpOnly attribute ◦ Input validation ◦ Demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i38LMZyKIqI
- 39. Broken authentication and session management
- 40. A vulnerability that allows the capture or bypass of authentication methods Most common authentication ◦ Username and Password Approximately 23% of application suffer from this type of vulnerability
- 41. Steps to log in ◦ User provides credentials ◦ Username= john, Password=asdf1234 ◦ The information is submitted to the application ◦ Session ID is generated and linked to the credentials Sessionid=1gLXXEnpGewaf14LieSDkNVPWL37H7D7Bm
- 42. Web apps can fail to protect these values ◦ Unencrypted connections ◦ Predictable Login credentials ◦ Session value does not timeout or does not get invalidated after logout ◦ User credentials are not protected when stored ◦ Session IDs used in URLs
- 43. Predictable sessions IDs allow an attacker to: ◦ Disconnect all users ◦ Hijack existing sessions Weak implementations typically use: ◦ Sequential numbers ◦ Hash of sequential numbers ◦ Time elapsed since starting of server / service ◦ Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsExXjBhR0Y
- 44. SQL-injection Also applicable for other languages User input is directly used in a query ◦ Manipulation of database query ◦ User input ‘search’ = alex ◦ Backend uses select details from users where name=‘alex’ ◦ Attacker input ‘search’ = alex’ or 1=1-- ◦ Backend uses select details from users where name=‘alex’ or 1=1 Display all records
- 45. Advanced tools are out there to abuse flaws ◦ File upload ◦ File download ◦ OS command execution ◦ … sqlmap ◦ http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/ ◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylttGlSkrGU ◦ Tunnel shell over http using SQL-injection!
- 47. Example Demo (demo.testfire.net) ◦ <% SQLquery=“SELECT * FROM roguetable” Set Conn=Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”)Conn.O pen “DSN=websql;UID=sa;PWD=pwd;DATABASE=master” Set rec=Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.RecordSet”) rec.ActiveConnection=Conn rec.Open SQLquery%>
- 48. Example Demo (demo.testfire.net) ◦ <% SQLquery=“SELECT * FROM roguetable” Set Conn=Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”)Conn.O pen “DSN=websql;UID=DATA’-- ;PWD=pwd;DATABASE=master” Set rec=Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.RecordSet”) rec.ActiveConnection=Conn rec.Open SQLquery%> Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnQIbyK779I
- 50. Detection: ◦ Detection of well-known attacks using IDS ◦ Check web server logs ◦ Check network flows ◦ Difficult to detect all attacks! Prevention: ◦ Use good practices http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Guide_Project ◦ Review and/or test the application before going live Source code review http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Code_Review_Project Penetration test http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Appendix_A:_Testing_Tools
- 51. Hacking is not allowed ◦ “Computer Crime Act” (Is there any in Russia?) ◦ Testing without breaking in is also not allowed If you want to test your (organization’s) apps: ◦ Use a letter of authorization Document the type of activities you will be performing Document the IPs that will be tested Signed by the system’s owner
- 52. More hands on hacking: ◦ Hacking Exposed books http://www.webhackingexposed.com/products.html ◦ Certified Ethical Hacker https://www.eccouncil.org/certification/certified_ethical_h acker.aspx